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Improve --smart-case handling of meta-characters

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For #670. Ignore uppercase characters in regex meta-characters, character escapes, and other constructs. For example, --smart-case should see all lowercase here: ack --smart-case '--s\x6Dart\Wcas\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E}' On the other...

timgimyee

Support Multiple, Newline-Separated Patterns

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Per [POSIX 1003.1](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/grep.html#tag_20_55): > The *pattern_list*'s value shall consist of one or more patterns separated by `` characters So, for example, you could do: ``` bash% ls -l /etc/ |...

DabeDotCom

File::Temp::tempdir() internally calls File::Path::rmtree() to implement the 'CLEANUP => 1' option. A security vulnernability was discovered in rmtree() in early 2017. This vulnerability has been addressed in File::Path versions 2.14...

jkeenan

Complete the cpp and makefile file type

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yantaozhao

Add support for negation of -k --known-types options

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Implementation of feature request in issue https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/293.

packy

Fix infinite loop issue

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This addresses GH #481 I don't know how well this will work on Windows, if at all. Something like http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364953.aspx might provide useful for platform compatability.

hoelzro

Improved bash completion

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Addresses issue #554 that I raised a while ago. Best way to see changes is to test it out I think. Noticeable things: - handles --type X & --type=X properly...

starcraftman

Fixes issue #563. Count only one match per line for --count option, not all the matches.

fluks

Maximum and minimum file size

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Follows on from discussion in #529. - The only per-file overhead for users who don't use the new options is a single boolean check to see if the size filter...

pdl