As I mentioned previously, I kind of liked the ack-grep tool. I made a small patch for it so that it ignores moc_*.cpp files generated by Qt’s moc tool, which I think makes not much of sense to include in the search as they are automatically generated files.
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Something better than grep
For a while I have been trying to convince myself to write a script for filtering grep output when searching code trees, especially ones versioned with Subversion or so. Then I made some googling around to see if anybody made it already. I was lucky, someone already written a tool called ack. It searches recursively filtering almost anything that will not make sense; such as binaries, backup files of editors, version control system files and so on. It also has very nicely formatted colorful output.
Here it can be found:
