On 3 May 2010, at 13:26, Mathieu Lonjaret wrote:
No idea, probably none. that would not be the interesting point, if any. it's just that the tool is already there and (should be) simpler to use than piping various commands around, as they illustrate below.
Ack looks cute, but I think a fairly simple shell script could do all of what ack does without requiring perl. I imagine it would be faster still by not using Perl's broken regular expressions, and bear in mind on Plan 9 you'd probably want to make a wrapper for grep anyway if you do a lot of recursive searching.
-- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
