unix - using ack to replace find/grep & address --exclude/--include syntax needs (do not grep through certain files) - from Stack Overflow

Please take a look at ack, which is designed for exactly these situations. Your example of grep -ircl --exclude=*.{png,jpg} "foo=" * is done with ack as ack -icl "foo=" because ack never looks in binary files by default, and -r is on by default. And if you want only CPP and H files, then just do ack -icl --cpp "foo=" share|improve this answer answered Oct 21 '08 at 14:18 Andy Lester 16.3k42962
	Looks nice, will try the standalone Perl version next time, thanks. – Piskvor Oct 21 '08 at 14:39 2   Good call, I can no longer live without ack. – Chance Nov 15 '10 at 21:21 1   stackoverflow.com/questions/667471/… - This will allow you to get ack on windows, if that is where you are running grep from. – TamusJRoyce Dec 15 '10 at 16:58 Thank you for your feedback.

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