Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Make ack search additional file types

#grep
#ack

For example, it doesn't bother with CoffeeScript per default. To make ack search in .coffee files:

$ cat ~/.ackrc
--type-set=coffeescript=.coffee
#grep
#ack

Written by Simon Pantzare

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