On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:46:29 +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > I try to come with good use cases where it's a more right tool than grep > and I can't. GNU grep does colors too, and multiple --exclude '*.rb', > and even extra features like context lines. > > Unfortunately ack is much slower then grep (about 9 times), and yes, I > speak about "grep -r --exclude" or "grep -P PERL_REGEXP long file list".
The point of ack is that people for whom ack is fast enough don't have to write their own aliases, bash functions and grep wrappers ;-) -- Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418 _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
