I’m using ack (the grep replacement) on Windows XP under Strawberry Perl. Where should the .ackrc config file be placed, since ~/.ackrc is not reasonable on Windows?
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I’m using ack (the grep replacement) on Windows XP under Strawberry Perl. Where should the .ackrc config file be placed, since ~/.ackrc is not reasonable on Windows?
For windows (MSWin32, anyway), ack looks in the following places and uses the first file found:
All but the first are subject to glob-expansion, so watch out for meta-characters in your environment variables.
When not on windows, HOME and USERPROFILE are replaced by ~ and HOME, respectively.