ack is a grep-like tool optimized for working with large trees of source code.

ack is not intended to be a general-purpose replacement for grep. ack is for searching source code of defined file types. For searching other files, you may want to stick with grep.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

You can look for information at:

• ack home page

  • http://betterthangrep.com/

• CPAN home

  • http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack

• Project home

  • https://github.com/petdance/ack

• AnnoCPAN, annotated documentation

  • http://annocpan.org/dist/ack

• CPAN Ratings

  • http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/ack

• Issue list at Github (report bugs here)

  • https://github.com/petdance/ack/issues

• The ack mailing list

  • http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2010 Andy Lester.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.