ack is a code-searching tool, similar to grep but optimized for
programmers searching large trees of source code. It runs in pure
Perl, is highly portable, and runs on any platform that runs Perl.
ack requires Perl 5.8.8 or higher. Perl 5.8.8 was released January 2006.
# Required
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install # for a system-wide installation (recommended)
# - or -
make ack-standalone
cp ack-standalone ~/bin/ack2 # for a personal installation