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ack 3

ack is a code-searching tool, similar to grep but optimized for programmers searching large trees of source code. It is highly portable and runs on any platform that runs Perl.

ack is written and maintained by Andy Lester (andy@beyondgrep.com).

Building

ack requires Perl 5.10.1 or higher. Perl 5.10.1 was released August 2009.

# Required
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install # For a system-wide installation
# - or -
make ack-standalone
cp ack-standalone ~/bin/ack3 # For a personal installation

Development

Community

See the Community page.

License

Copyright 2005-2018 Andy Lester.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License v2.0. See also the LICENSE.md file that comes with the ack distribution.