Using find
When not using ack, my favorite search tool, you can still exclude SVN folders. Here is an example of me looking for a file:
$ find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -name 'EosController*'
./web/models/controllers/EosController.php
./web/models/controllers/EosControllerTest.php
This mode of expression might be better for your scripting needs.
Do you know about the -f and -g options to ack?
$ ack -f –php
will list all PHP files, so that
$ ack -f –php | ack EosController
will do the same thing as your example above. And, since that was so common, you can do this:
$ ack -g EosController –php
Thank you very much, Andy! ack's served me so well, even with my rude and coarse mode of expression. The “-g thang” will make my command-line life more comfortable still. Hooray for the explicit “languages understood” documentation on the first page of ack's informative website.
I was so happy about ack's .ackrc possibilities that I added case-insensitivity and a bunch of ignored directories. Looking at it, it does not seem optimal. Is there an ackish way of ignoring better?
-i
–ignore-dir=vendor
–ignore-dir=extjs
–ignore-dir=ext-3.1.1
–ignore-dir=mochikit
–ignore-dir=jsan
–ignore-dir=MochiKit
–ignore-dir=eos_docs