Saturday 4 November 2017

Ack (search tool) Installation On Mac

How To Install ack on Mac with Brew

Ack is a search tool similar to grep, but optimized for programmers. It is designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code. It is written purely in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.

To know about ack more read here: https://beyondgrep.com/

Steps for Installing Ack:
  • Get your terminal open
  • Install homebrew

    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  • Install ack using brew

    brew install ack
ack is ready to use now!

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