./textproc/the_silver_searcher, Attempt to improve on ack, which itself is better than grep

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Branch: pkgsrc-2020Q1, Version: 2.2.0, Package name: the_silver_searcher-2.2.0, Maintainer: leot

Why use ag?

* It searches through code about 3x-5x faster than ack.
* It ignores files matched by patterns in your .gitignore and .hgignore.
* If there are files in your source repo that you don't want to
search, just add their patterns to a .agignore file.
* It's written in C instead of perl, the lesser of two evils :)
* The binary name is 33% shorter than ack!


Required to run:
[devel/pcre]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

SHA1: 8d6e6d206a40fd3328bc44cae706504d167268c0
RMD160: a7826755e4cc6f6af2878cba08dd39010f40c471
Filesize: 186.118 KB

Version history: (Expand)