a simple question about grep

[Bill Ricker]

>   Or, if you only have an old grep, but do have Perl, the following should work:

The Andy and the "ack" project have built a better grep with perl.
http://perladvent.pm.org/2006/5/
search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack/ack
petdance.com/ack/

"ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. Command name is
25% shorter. :-) Heck, it's 50% shorter compared to grep -r. "
use.perl.org/~petdance/journal/31763

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ynTV_E-5s [Andy "petdance" giving
"ack" Lighting talk at OSCON 2007, 9min]
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?ack

Disclaimer - I have been known to contribute a patch to "ack" once in
a blue moon.

-- 
Bill
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