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Wouldn it be great if ack did search & replace?

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Wouldn it be great if ack did search & replace?

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No, ack will always be read-only. Perl has a perfectly good way to do search & replace in files, using the -i, -p and -n switches. You can certainly use ack to select your files to update.

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