I added lots of new file types to ack:
Usage: ack [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILES] Search for PATTERN in each source file in the tree from cwd on down. If [FILES] is specified, then only those files/directories are checked. ack may also search STDIN, but only if no FILES are specified, or if one of FILES is "-".
Default switches may be specified in ACK_SWITCHES environment variable.
Example: ack -i select
Searching: -i ignore case distinctions -v invert match: select non-matching lines -w force PATTERN to match only whole words
Search output: -l only print filenames containing matches -o show only the part of a line matching PATTERN (turns off text highlighting) --output=expr output the evaluation of expr for each line (turns off text highlighting) -m=NUM stop after NUM matches -H print the filename for each match -h suppress the prefixing filename on output -c, --count show number of lines matching per file
--group group matches by file name. (default: on when used interactively) --nogroup One result per line, including filename, like grep (default: on when the output is redirected)
--[no]color highlight the matching text (default: on unless output is redirected, or on Windows)
File finding: -f only print the files found, without searching. The PATTERN must not be specified.
File inclusion/exclusion: -n No descending into subdirectories -a, --all All files, regardless of extension (but still skips blib, CVS, RCS, SCCS, .svn and _darcs dirs) --[no]asm .s and .S --[no]binary Binary files, as defined by Perl's -B op (default: off) --[no]cc .c and .h --[no]css .css --[no]elisp .el --[no]haskell .hs and .lhs --[no]html .htm, .html and .shtml --[no]js .js --[no]lisp .lisp --[no]ocaml .ml and .mli --[no]parrot .pir, .pasm, .pmc, .ops, .pod, .pg and .tg --[no]perl .pl, .pm, .pod, .tt, .ttml and .t --[no]php .php, .phpt, .htm and .html --[no]python .py --[no]ruby .rb, .rhtml and .rjs --[no]scheme .scm --[no]shell .sh, .bash, .csh, .ksh and .zsh --[no]sql .sql and .ctl --[no]tt .tt and .tt2 --[no]vim .vim --[no]yaml .yaml and .yml
Miscellaneous: --help this help --version display version --thpppt Bill the Cat
GOTCHAS: Note that FILES must still match valid selection rules. For example,
ack something --perl foo.rb
will search nothing, because foo.rb is a Ruby file.
