grep like tool, aimed at programmers
ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of
heterogeneous source code. It is written purely in Perl, and takes
advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.
Features :
- ignores backup files and VCS directories
- colorized output
- permits to restrict search on a filetype

Maintainer: Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@spootnik.org>

WWW: http://beyondgrep.com/
