Search sass with ack
I use ack all the time for searching source code, however when I started using sass it stopped working.
Here's the fix:
cat >> ~/.ackrc
--type-add
css=.sass,.scss
This show you all the file types ack will recognise and the extensions they are mapped to:
ack --help types
There are lots:
--[no]actionscript .as .mxml
--[no]ada .ada .adb .ads
--[no]asm .asm .s
--[no]batch .bat .cmd
--[no]binary Binary files, as defined by Perl's -B op (default: off)
--[no]cc .c .h .xs
--[no]cfmx .cfc .cfm .cfml
--[no]clojure .clj
--[no]cpp .cpp .cc .cxx .m .hpp .hh .h .hxx
--[no]csharp .cs
--[no]css .css .sass .scss
--[no]delphi .pas .int .dfm .nfm .dof .dpk .dproj .groupproj .bdsgroup .bdsproj
--[no]elisp .el
--[no]erlang .erl .hrl
--[no]fortran .f .f77 .f90 .f95 .f03 .for .ftn .fpp
--[no]go .go
--[no]groovy .groovy .gtmpl .gpp .grunit
--[no]haskell .hs .lhs
--[no]hh .h
--[no]html .htm .html .shtml .xhtml
--[no]java .java .properties
--[no]js .js
--[no]jsp .jsp .jspx .jhtm .jhtml
--[no]lisp .lisp .lsp
--[no]lua .lua
--[no]make Makefiles (including *.mk and *.mak)
--[no]mason .mas .mhtml .mpl .mtxt
--[no]objc .m .h
--[no]objcpp .mm .h
--[no]ocaml .ml .mli
--[no]parrot .pir .pasm .pmc .ops .pod .pg .tg
--[no]perl .pl .pm .pm6 .pod .t
--[no]php .php .phpt .php3 .php4 .php5 .phtml
--[no]plone .pt .cpt .metadata .cpy .py
--[no]python .py
--[no]rake Rakefiles
--[no]ruby .rb .rhtml .rjs .rxml .erb .rake .spec
--[no]scala .scala
--[no]scheme .scm .ss
--[no]shell .sh .bash .csh .tcsh .ksh .zsh
--[no]skipped Files, but not directories, normally skipped by ack (default: off)
--[no]smalltalk .st
--[no]sql .sql .ctl
--[no]tcl .tcl .itcl .itk
--[no]tex .tex .cls .sty
--[no]text Text files, as defined by Perl's -T op (default: off)
--[no]tt .tt .tt2 .ttml
--[no]vb .bas .cls .frm .ctl .vb .resx
--[no]verilog .v .vh .sv
--[no]vhdl .vhd .vhdl
--[no]vim .vim
--[no]xml .xml .dtd .xsl .xslt .ent
--[no]yaml .yaml .yml
Written by Ed
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