ack is a grep-like tool optimized for working with large trees of source code.

ack is not intended to be a general-purpose replacement for grep. ack is for searching source code of defined file types. For searching other files, you may want to stick with grep.

# INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

# SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

You can look for information at:

• ack home page
  • <http://betterthangrep.com/>
• CPAN home
  • <http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack>
• Project home
  • <http://github.com/petdance/ack>
• AnnoCPAN, annotated documentation
  • <http://annocpan.org/dist/ack>
• CPAN Ratings
  • <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/ack>
• Issue list at Github (report bugs here)
  • <http://github.com/petdance/ack/issues>
• The ack mailing list
  • <http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users>

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2010 Andy Lester.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.