Ack

Making Better Use of your .ackrc file

Many command line utils have a . file that people rarely use. Ack is one of them.

For a project I’m working on, there’s a var folder (ignored in git) where all the logs go. When I perform an ack search, I have no interest in ack looking through the var folder every single time.

By default, ack only checks your ~/.ackrc file for it’s default switches. You can have per directory ack settings if you add this to your .bash_profile: