Use –type for this. To only search python files for example: ack –type=python searchthis List all the supported types with ack –help=types # ack 2.x ack –help-types # ack 3.x.x If you want to create a custom type, add something like this to ~/.ackrc: –type-add=custom:ext:rb –type-set Then you can use –type=custom with ack to just … Read more
$ grep -Pio ‘(?<=heads\/)(.*?)(?=\n)’ text.txt # P option instead of E If you use GNU grep, you can use -P or –perl-regexp options. In case you are using OS X, you need to install GNU grep. $ brew install grep Due to recent changes, to use GNU grep on macOS you either have to prepend … Read more
According to the man page of ag -G –file-search-regex PATTERN Only search files whose names match PATTERN. You can use the -G option to perform searches on files matching a pattern. So, to answer your question: root@apache107:~/rpm-4.12.0.1# ag -G cpio.c size rpm2cpio.c 21: off_t payload_size; 73: /* Retrieve payload size and compression type. */ 76: … Read more
You want to find word_1, followed by anything, any number of times, followed by word_2. That should be word_1.*word_2 You seem to be using * as it is often used in command line searches, but in regexes is it a quantifier for the preceding character, meaning match it at least 0 times. For example, the … Read more
Now that ack 2.0 is available: –ignore-file=ext:orig , either on command line or .ackrc. It is possible to ignore files by name. To ignore ctags generated files: –ignore-file=is:tags Filters for different uses can be found on documentation.
It’s actually similar to how you would specify the include patterns for grep: ack <term> –ignore-dir={dir_a,dir_b} However, This format does not work with a single directory. So ack <term> –ignore-dir={log} will not work.
On window,add .ackrc file under C:\Documents and Settings\yourname,with content –type-set=aspx=.aspx you can set a type to multi file extension,seperate by “,” –type-set=aspx=.aspx,.ascx Note ack syntax and behaviour has changed significantly with version 2. The equivalent of the above in version 2 would be: –type-set=aspx:ext:aspx,ascx Where the syntax is –type-set TYPE:FILTER:FILTERARGS and FILTER can be any … Read more
ack is peculiar in that it doesn’t have a blacklist of file types to ignore, but rather a whitelist of file types that it will search in. To quote from the man page: With no file selections, ack-grep only searches files of types that it recognizes. If you have a file called foo.wango, and ack-grep … Read more
The older versions of ack can only take the folder name, not the folder path. As of version 1.93_02, they’ve added this ability in: 1.93_02 Wed Oct 6 21:39:58 CDT 2010 [ENHANCEMENTS] The –ignore-dir option now can ignore entire paths relative to your current directory. Thanks to Nick Hooey. For example: ack –ignore-dir=t/subsystem/test-data (From betterthangrep.com/Changes) … Read more
I’ve decided to use ack and perl to solve this problem outside of Vim so I could use the more powerful Perl regular expressions instead of the GNU subset. You could map this to a key stroke in your .vimrc. ack -l ‘pattern’ | xargs perl -pi -E ‘s/pattern/replacement/g’ Explanation ack ack is an awesome … Read more