tldr/pages/common/ack.md

# ack

> A search tool like grep, optimized for programmers.

- Find files containing "foo"

`ack {{foo}}`

- Find files in a specific language

`ack --ruby {{each_with_object}}`

- Count the total number of matches for the term "foo"

`ack -ch {{foo}}`

- Show the file names containing "foo" and number of matches in each file

`ack -cl {{foo}}`
adding ack 2014-10-01 23:02:25 +01:00			`# ack`

			`> A search tool like grep, optimized for programmers.`

			`- Find files containing "foo"`

			`ack {{foo}}`

			`- Find files in a specific language`

			`ack --ruby {{each_with_object}}`

			`- Count the total number of matches for the term "foo"`

			`ack -ch {{foo}}`

			`- Show the file names containing "foo" and number of matches in each file`

Normalize the final new line Fixes #310 Some files had no newlines, some had 1 newline and some more than 1 newline. Normalize them all to have only 1 newline at the end of all files. 2015-10-28 08:33:06 +00:00			`ack -cl {{foo}}`