Comment on GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scriptsparentComments−csense14y> Why would you want to use plain old "grep" instead of "ack"?1. Because all the cool kids are doing it.2. Because I hate Perl.−koenigdavidmj14yWhy is your Perl hate relevant? It can be written in COBOL for all I care; I'm just using a tool to find files. I don't spend my days browsing through the source code of random tools.
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> Why would you want to use plain old "grep" instead of "ack"?
1. Because all the cool kids are doing it.
2. Because I hate Perl.
Why is your Perl hate relevant? It can be written in COBOL for all I care; I'm just using a tool to find files. I don't spend my days browsing through the source code of random tools.