Search Files Specific To A Language
The ack
command makes it easy to narrow the set of searched files to those of a specific programming language. For instance, if you have a rails project and only want to search the ruby files, use the --ruby
flag with your ack
command.
$ ack --ruby Active
With the --ruby
flag, I get a manageable number of results. Without it, not so much.
$ ack --ruby Active | wc -l
26
$ ack Active | wc -l
5253
See man ack
for more details.
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