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Using ack in place of grep

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To use Ack, make sure you have Perl installed and run the following commands in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install ack
sudo apt-get install ack-grep

Now you can use ack-grep command to search for matches in the files

ack-grep -i some-text
# use ack-grep --help to list the possible options.

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