Comment on GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scriptsparentComments−eliasmacpherson14yack has ignore built in for certain filetypes. Then combined with my shell expanding * to just the files and directories at the current layer, ack will not find certain things that grep -R string * will.
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ack has ignore built in for certain filetypes. Then combined with my shell expanding * to just the files and directories at the current layer, ack will not find certain things that grep -R string * will.