#15 Power Searching with Ack
Most Linux/Unix users are familiar with Grep, but for many situations Ack does a better and faster job.
Ack is smart enough to skip version control files and directories, temp files, can exclude or include certain file types, and use powerful regular expression when searching.
Uploaded on Dec 11, 2009 | 4:25 | Tags: ack grep Linux
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