Why does ack ignore unknown files by default?
ack is designed by a programmer, for programmers, for searching large trees of code. Most codebases have a lot files in them which aren’t source files (like compiled object files, source control metadata, etc), and grep wastes a lot of time searching through all of those as well and returning matches from those files. That’s why ack’s behavior of not searching things it doesn’t recognize is one of its greatest strengths: the speed you get from only searching the things that you want to be looking at.
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