Beyond grep: ack 2.12, a source code search tool for programmersack is a grep-like source code search tool. The latest version of ack is v3.7.0, released 2023-02-25. Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions. What's new in ack? New --not option The new repeatable --not option lets you get more precise matches. If you want to search for
