I recently migrated my workflow from a mess that is grep, sed, and perl,
all with different options, incompatible behavior and regexps, to just ack
and perl¹. I'm happy so far, but there's one thing I miss: ability for
"ack" to execute a command on files with matches. This can be worked around
with xargs, e.g.:
ack -l --print0 pattern | xargs -r0 perl -i -pe
's/pattern/replacement/g'
Unfortunately "xargs" is a limited workaround: it's kind of complex, and I
afraid it may break if it match number of files more than ARG_MAX xargs
variable.
It would be great if "ack" instead supported an "--exec" option to execute
a command on match.
P.S.: The "contributing" says I need to post the request here first.
1: https://github.com/Hi-Angel/notes-backup/blob/master/perl.md
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