Cool Ack Trick of the Whatever

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Shlomi Fish

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Oct 27, 2009, 4:40:42 PM10/27/09

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Hi all!

Today I wanted to rebuild all documents under a certain sub-section of my
home-site. So I used:

$ ack -f t2/philosophy/case-for-file-swapping/
t2/philosophy/case-for-file-swapping/revision-3/index.html.wml
t2/philosophy/case-for-file-swapping/shlomif-email1.txt
t2/philosophy/case-for-file-swapping/index.html.wml
$ ack -f t2/philosophy/case-for-file-swapping/ | xargs touch

Groovy!

One can also do ack -af to be extra certain.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish
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