wack

wack stands for Wack ACK

what?

wack aims to be a bit like ack but implemented in node. it doesn't aim to be wack, but it kind of is at the moment.

installation

npm install -g wack

usage

wack searchPattern

will search the current dir (and recursively all sub dirs) for searchPattern

options

• -d or --dir <dir> search different dir.
• -D or --ignoredir <dir1[,dir2...]> to ignore directories
• -i or --ignorecase to ignore case
• -n or --norecurse to prevent subdirectory search
• -m or --maxcount <num> show max of <num> results per file
• -k or --knowntypes only search files of known type
• -t or --type <type1[,type2...]> only show results from file types listed
• -T or --notype <type1[,type2...]> exclude results from file types listed
• -C or --nocolor to turn off output coloring
• -1 or --justone to only return the very first result
• -v or --invertmatch to return lines that do not match the search pattern
• -h or --help for help
• -V or --version for version

as a module

alternatively, you can write directory names to wack and it will stream search results.

that looks kinda like this:

var wack = require('wack')

var wack_stream = wack({pattern: 'Sheena'})

wack_stream.on('data', dump)

wack_stream.write('./ramones_albums/')

function dump(data) {
  console.log(data)
// {
//     filename: /current/dir/ramones-albums/rocket-to-russia.txt
//   , context: 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker'
//   , line: 6
//   , match: ['Sheena', index: 0, input: 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker']
// }
}

for stream options, use the full flag name (ie ignorecase, invertmatch, etc) and pattern for the search pattern.

file types

file types are exactly the same as ack, except I have added markdown (which checks .md, .mkd, and .markdown) and json (which checks .json).

license

MIT