Ack is a good alternative to grep
By chys on September 6th, 2009When I grep -r something in a Subversion-controlled directory, I get a lot of results under the .svn.
In this sense, Git is better than Subversion. (Git creates only one .git directory, and stores data in some compressed format which gets ignored by grep -r.)
So I have switched to ack when working with Subversion. Ack is written in Perl, claimed to be “aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.”
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