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p5-ack-3.9.0

grep like tool, aimed at programmers

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Description

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. It is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions. Features : - ignores backup files and VCS directories - colorized output - permits to restrict search on a filetype

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Ports path
textproc/p5-ack
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
textproc, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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