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		5h on May 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers I normally tell people to use ack because it's like grep but faster (owing to it's sensible defaults) ... if I use this I'm worried I might go too fast and travel backwards in time or something.

csgavino1 on May 7, 2014 [–]

Give ag a shot, you'll be able to relive the emotions you felt when you switched to ack from grep, but this time you're switching to ag from ack.

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