Well, long time no post here.

I'm going to talk about a tool that changed the way I do search on the programming front.

Since I really don't like grep for common searches (it's a great tool but it's interface is a bit clunky) I used to use the Regexxer for those kind of project searches (it's a great GUI tool, I recommend it to anyone).

But since I'm more of a minimalist command line kind of guy, I was happy as a bonobo when I found ack, a grep like program hat has a interface for human beings (yeah, ubuntu reference, sue me). To give a little example on how simple is to search in a ruby project for example:

cd ~/project/path

ack-grep --ruby string_to_be_searched

And that's it, if you want any more details, the ack home page has a great little tutorial.

Hugs everyone.