Changes for version 1.90 - 2009-09-07

  • ENHANCEMENTS
    • Added Ada support. Thanks to Shaun Patterson.
    • Added -r, -R and --recurse options as in grep. They have no effect because directory recursion is on by default. Also added --no-recurse for orthoganality. Thanks to Mark Stosberg and Ryan Niebur.
    • Version in --version is prettier. Thanks, Ori Avtalion.
    • Added an updated ack.bash_completion.sh from Adam James.
  • FIXES
    • Expanded --files-without-match to --files-without-matches.
    • Removed all the hi-bit characters, so we don't have any encoding problems. It's all entities now.
    • Fixed capture-stderr to localize some globals that were obscuring errors. Thanks very much to Christopher Madsen.
    • Fixed uninitialized errors in tickets #138 and #159.
  • DOCUMENTATION
    • Fixed an incorrect command line in the docs for -f.
    • Added notes on --pager. Thanks to Mike Morearty.
  • BUILD
    • Made the squash program more robust when handling POD. Thanks to Kent Fredric.

Changes for version 1.89_02 - 2009-05-13

  • DISTRIBUTION
    • Updated Makefile.PL to use new ExtUtils::MakeMaker features. Thanks, Schwern.
  • FEATURES
    • --version now shows the version of Perl that ack is running under, and the full path to the Perl executable.
    • Added new switches --color-match and --color-filename, which let you define ACK_COLOR_MATCH and ACK_COLOR_FILENAME from the command line.
    • Added new switch --column to display the column of the first hit on the row. Thanks to Eric Van Dewoestine.
    • Added .ss to --scheme.
  • FIXES
    • No longer die if you have a .tar.gz file in your tree.
    • More tweaks to get the detection of input and output pipes working.
    • Fixed an amazingly bad call to cmp_ok() in t/ack-passthru.t.
  • DOCUMENTATION
    • Started an ack FAQ.

Documentation

ack
grep-like text finder
ack
grep-like text finder

Modules

A container for functions for the ack program

Provides

in Plugin.pm
in Repository.pm
in Resource.pm