Ack!

_   /|

\'o.O'

=(___)=

   U    ack!

find . -name “*.some_ext” | xargs grep ’some_pattern’

Man does this not age very well when you do it al lot. Yeah yeah, you’re a smart-ass and you can write a shell script and make that easier. But what if there was a tool you could use to do it smartly? With highlighting and a slew of other features? Enter ack.

I’ve been ignoring my homies on #pso with a stupid kind of ‘i got fingers and i can type’ smugness. So wrong was I. His name is Bill, he’s my new friend.