It's a traditional open source unix cli tool! So, why does this site actually look, dare i say, sexy? "Blazing fast It's fast because it only searches the stuff it makes sense to search. Better search Searches entire trees by default while ignoring Subversion, Git and other VCS directories and other files that aren't your source code. Designed for code search Where grep is a general text search tool, ack is especially for the programmer searching source code. Common tasks take fewer keystrokes." #cli #grep #ack #perl #perl_5 #regex #*nix #alternatives #best_of #code #dev #homebrew_formulas #searching #utilities #pub