ack - grep-like text finder for large trees of text
ack is a grep-like program with optimizations for searching through large trees of source code.
Key improvements include:
Defaults to only searching program source code
Defaults to recursively searching directories
Ignores blib directories.
Ignores source code control directories, like CVS, .svn and _darcs.
Uses Perl regular expressions
Highlights matched text
To install App::Ack, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::Ack
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::Ack
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.