Jason Stelzer on 16 Oct 2008 13:07:18 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] CLI for "find" text string in an unknown file


That's an interesting tool. I wonder if I can get them to change the
shebang line :)

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bob Heise <heise2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for a command line tool that will search through text files and
>> find the ones with a specific string.   So far, Google has not helped me.
>> Anybody know how to do this?
>
> You might try ack -a
> http://petdance.com/ack/
>
> -Bob
>
>>
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