Find in Portfile

[Robinho]

Hi,

why the ack didn't make search in macport's Porfiles ?

Thanks

[Andy Lester]

On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Robinho wrote:

why the ack didn't make search in macport's Porfiles ?

I don't understand the question that you're asking.

I will say that packaging for MacPorts is entirely separate from the development of ack itself.  Maybe someone who knows about the packaging process will be able to help.

xoa

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I can give it a whirl.

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[Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto]

My english is so bad.

I had a directory's tree with a lot of Porfile files.

And I'd like to find a substring inner Portfiles, but the ack ignore this files.

How can I configure ack to find substring/regex into Porfiles?

thanks

[Andy Lester]

I had a directory's tree with a lot of Porfile files.

And I'd like to find a substring inner Portfiles, but the ack ignore this files.

ack 1.x only searches source code, and source code is defined as "files that are of a type that ack understands."  Since ack doesn't know what type a Portfile is, it ignores it.  The workaround is to use the -a switch to search for any filetypes, even unrecognized ones.  Or you can use grep.

ack 2.0 will change this behavior by searching all text files by default.

xoa

[Bill Ricker]

ack 1.x only searches source code, and source code is defined as "files that are of a type that ack understands."  

And more, ack 1.x  --type definition mechanism only works with files with a .ext marking, which is somewhat foreign in Mac-only tools.

However, you can search all ./{anywhere}/Portfile files with the flag

    -G REGEX              Only search files that match REGEX

like this

  ack -aG 'Portfile.*'  '\bmaintainers\s+nomaintainer\b'

or more readable as 

  ack -aG 'Portfile.*'  '(?x) \b maintainers \s+ nomaintainer \b'

(note that the  -a   'all' will still ignore .svn and similar directories ! )

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