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csense on July 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion option...

> 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.

koenigdavidmj on July 27, 2012 [–]

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.

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