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Downloads:

23,970

Downloads of v 3.4.0:

4,220

Last Update:

23 Jul 2020

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Andy Lester

Tags:

ack grep perl beyondgrep

Ack!

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3.4.0 | Updated: 23 Jul 2020

Downloads:

23,970

Downloads of v 3.4.0:

4,220

Software Author(s):

  • Andy Lester

Ack! 3.4.0

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Ack!, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Ack!, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Ack!, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade ack -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade ack -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install ack
  win_chocolatey:
    name: ack
    version: '3.4.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'ack' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '3.4.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller ack
{
    Name     = "ack"
    Version  = "3.4.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'ack':
  ensure   => '3.4.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 23 Jul 2020.

Description

ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers

Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written purely in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.


tools\ack.pl
 
tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';
$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

$AckCmd = Join-Path -Path $toolsDir -ChildPath "ack.cmd"
$AckPl = Join-Path -Path $toolsDir -ChildPath "ack.pl"

@"
@echo off
perl.exe $AckPl %*
"@ | Out-File -FilePath $AckCmd -Encoding "ASCII"

Install-BinFile -Name "ack" -Path $AckCmd

$OldAckBinfile = Join-Path -Path $env:ChocolateyInstall -ChildPath "bin\ack.cmd"
$OldAckBinfileRegex = "^perl\.exe .*ack\.pl %\*$"

if ((Get-Content -Path $OldAckBinfile -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -Last 1) -match $OldAckBinfileRegex) {
  Write-Host "Removing pre-2.18 launcher: $OldAckBinfile"
  Remove-Item -Path "$OldAckBinfile"
}
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';

Uninstall-BinFile -Name "ack"
tools\LICENSE.md
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tools\VERIFICATION.txt
VERIFICATION

The hash correct hash can be verified by independently downloading the file from the official distribution location:

https://beyondgrep.com/ack-v3.1.1

Generate a local hash with one of the following commands:

PowerShell: Get-FileHash -Path tools\ack.pl -Algorithm SHA256
Chocolatey: %ChocolateyInstall%\tools\checksum.exe -t=sha256 tools\ack.pl
Cygwin:     sha256sum tools/ack.pl

Verify it matches the following:

2d7f87caf20a42770fec7956cf939100f8741bb3409d138d21f2d9f51d0beb7c *tools/ack.pl

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Ack! 3.1.1 1531 Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Approved
Ack! 2.22 3494 Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Approved
Ack! 2.20 409 Friday, December 22, 2017 Approved
Ack! 2.18 716 Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Approved
Ack! 2.14 6681 Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Approved
Ack! 2.04 3727 Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Approved
Ack! 1.96.2 1297 Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Approved
Ack! 1.96.1 694 Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Approved
Ack! 1.96 753 Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Approved

From: https://beyondgrep.com/changes.txt

v3.4.0 Mon Jun 29 23:04:18 CDT 2020

[FEATURES]
When calling "ack -c" to get a list of filenames and counts, the filename
would not be colored like when getting normal search results. Now it will.
Thanks to Matthew Hughes for adding the feature, and Ophir Lifshitz for the
suggestion. (GH#282)

Added --toml for the TOML filetype. (GH#306)

[FIXES]
The test t/ack-x.t would fail when run as root. Now it is skipped. Thanks,
Michael LaGrasta. (GH#217)

v3.3.1 Mon Jan 13 10:27:16 CST 2020

[FIXES]
Some regexes would be shown as invalid when used with the -Q option. Since
the -Q tells ack to treat the regex as a literal, this shouldn't be
possible. (GH#294)

v3.3.0 Sat Dec 28 16:00:21 CST 2019

[FEATURES]
The error message ack displays when the regex passed is invalid has been
improved. The message is more readable and includes a pointer to the
offending part of the regex. For example:

$ ack 'status: (open|closed|in progress'
ack: Invalid regex 'status: (open|closed|in progress'
Regex: status: (open|closed|in progress
^---HERE Unmatched ( in regex

Added many new file and directory exclusions to speed up file selection.

  • Python's *.pyc, *.pyd and *.pyo compiled files
  • Python's __pycache__ and .pytest_cache directories
  • Linux *.so shared object files
  • Windows dynamic-link library *.dll files
  • gettext compiled *.mo translation files
  • macOS's __MACOSX directories and .DS_Store files

Reorganized the --help menu to put "action" options like -f, -g and -l at
the top of the listing.

The --show-types option only has an effect with -f or -g. ack will now
tell you if you use --show-types without -f or -g when it will have no
effect.

Improved the error message when ack gets passed two options that can't be
used together.

[FIXES]
Fixed the behavior of --break and --heading. Using --break would
implicitly set --noheading, and --heading would implicitly set --nobreak.

The following pairs of options don't make sense to use together, and ack will now warn you if you try:

  • -x and --files-from
  • -v and -o
  • -v and --output
  • -v and --passthru

Fixed the minimum version of the Getopt::Long module required. (GH #287)

The line number and filename separators in --passthru mode now work the
same as in context (-A/-B/-C) mode. (GH #291)

v3.2.0 Sun Nov 3 22:52:18 CST 2019

[FEATURES]
Added "-t X" as a short alias for --type=X.

Added "-T X" as a short alias for --type=noX.

The feature of using the name of the type as an option is deprecated. For
example, ack currently lets you use "--perl" instead of "--type=perl" or
"-t perl", This is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Removed support for Parrot (--parrot).

v3.1.3 Sat Oct 19 19:23:48 CDT 2019

No changes to functionality. Fixed a problem with version numbers.
Thanks to Dan Book for his help.
See https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack3/commit/b3c43d44109dea6ebc0753107a8e85a6b322f4ca

v3.1.2 Mon Oct 14 21:47:51 CDT 2019

[SPEEDUP]
Using -w with a pattern that ended with a metacharacter would be slower
than it should be because it would skip an optimization. Now it's fixed.
(GH #181, #251)

[FIXES]
Fixed test failures that would sometimes happen on Windows machines because
of taint mode. Thanks, Tomasz Konojacki. (GH #235)

Remove the use of the version.pm module.

v3.1.1 Sat Aug 31 22:56:10 CDT 2019

[SPEEDUP]
Improved the speed up the -l, -L and -c options by pre-scanning the file
in bulk before doing line-by-line scan. (GH #221)

ack now uses File::Next 1.18 which calls stat() only once per file or
directory, instead of sometimes calling it twice. This should improve the
time spent traversing directories.

[FIXES]
On Windows, patterns with $ to mark the end of the line would not match.
(GH #229)

[DOCUMENTATION]
Fixed docs that referred to --range-stop instead of --range-end. (GH #228)

v3.1.0 Thu Aug 22 22:43:15 CDT 2019

[FEATURES]
Added the --range-start and --range-end options to allow searching only
ranges of each file. (GH #165)

v3.0.3 Tue Aug 20 23:42:02 CDT 2019

[FIXES]
Made smartcase's check for lowercase patterns smarter.

[DOCUMENTATION]
Updated many URLs, especially in the config. (GH #223)

v3.0.2 Thu Jul 4 21:42:43 CDT 2019

[FIXES]
ack's smart-case feature would think that a pattern like "select \S+ from"
is looking for a uppercase letter, and so would not make a case-insensitive
search. Now, ack knows that uppercase letters in metacharacters don't
count as looking for a uppercase letter. (GH #156, 187, 214)

v3.0.1 Tue Jun 25 20:47:58 CDT 2019

[FIXES]
The -s option tells ack not to complain about missing or unreadable files
it tries to search. The -s option would not always work in conjection with
the -x option. Now it does. Thanks, Anders Eriksson and M. Scott Ford.
(GH #175)

ack would die if you specified a --output option that didn't use one
of Perl's special match variables. Now it won't. Thanks, M. Scott
Ford. (GH #210)

[INTERNALS]
Added a Dockerfile for use when working on ack development. Thanks,
M. Scott Ford. (GH #208)

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