ackdo-reloaded

ackdo is a companion to ack that allows you to preview changes made with sed (or a similar tool) to ack's (or grep's) direct output.

Why reloaded? The old version is still available but it was getting a littly hairy to maintain and the source was small enough for me to simply rewrite it. Also I've changed my phiilosophy regarding dependencies for ackdo since core made the code much cleaner. You're welcome to use the old version if you dislike the extra dependencies it is functionally equivalent for now.

Installing

Ackdo depends on the following:

core
sexplib
textutils

Which can all be easily installed through OPAM

To install simply run the following:

$ make
$ sudo make install

Usage

Say you want to rename a function foo_bar to fooBar. To preview changes:

$ ack -w 'foo_bar' | sed 's/foo_bar/fooBar/' | ackdo 

If you are happy with these changes you can write them with:

$ ack -w 'foo_bar' | sed 's/foo_bar/fooBar/' | ackdo -d

• -c flag to turn off color output
• -d dir to overwrite the root directory (base is cwd)

TODO : document everything else

Disclaimer

Use at your own peril. Ackdo comes with absolutely no warranty.

TODO

• create patch files
• colored diff of lines
• support more formatting options
• cleaner error handling

License

MIT