Comments on: Sexy clones of classic Unix tools

By: Anh

Anh — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:38:31 +0000

most doesn’t search with regular expression …

By: chorny

chorny — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:55:52 +0000

CPAN (Perl repository) has clone of many Unix utils called “ppt”. I frequently use diff/patch from ppt.

By: Andy Lester

Andy Lester — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:18:51 +0000

nato, Pádraig Brady: Excluding .svn directories is only part of what Ack does. Its output is also better and you can select on filetype, not just extensions.

kris: It’s sad to see you tar everything written in Perl as shite. If you didn’t look inside, you wouldn’t know it was Perl. There’s a Ruby clone of ack called rak, but it’s not nearly as featureful or polished.

Rob Olson: I’m glad you dig it. Check out the ack-users mailing list and help contribute to its rockingness.

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:53:01 +0000

Sexy??? I don’t understand the use of the adjective “sexy” to describe applications? I can’t wait to try out these new applications because they are sooo sexy.

By: ac

ac — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:24:19 +0000

What about vipe, pee, sponge, combine, ts, vidir, and others found in the moreutils package?. I just recently discovered these nifty utilities, finding that I’ve wanted some of them for years, but wasn’t clever enough to actually write any of them except combine.

By: nato

nato — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:20:43 +0000

ack — how about utilizing .bashrc

alias sgrep=”egrep –exclude=\*.svn\* -r -n “

By: Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:26:51 +0000

> The last time I looked at it, the biggest feature it has was command completion

Oh… no way. The biggest feature is the built-in glob enhancers. “find”, in your shell!

bash> find . \( -name ‘*.foo’ -o -name ‘*.bar’ \) -type f -print | xargs bleh # ??? no way!

zsh> bleh **/*.{foo,bar}(.)

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:07:47 +0000

I have been using fish shell for a while now and will recommend it.

By: Rob Olson

Rob Olson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:34:32 +0000

I downloaded ack today and played with it a bit and I agree it freaking rocks. Now I have to train myself to type ack instead of grep everytime.

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links for 2008-03-10 at DeStructUred Blog — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:18:29 +0000

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