I went through fair amount of google search to install ack-grep on CentOS but I didn't find anything help. I also looked for the source codes but couldn't find it neither. Does anyone know how to install it on the OS?
Thanks a lot.
Install ack-grep on CentOS
if you don't have the root permission, you can do as follows:
$ curl https://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.22-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
or you can change to root user:
$ sudo su
# curl https://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.22-single-file > /bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
Be sure to always check beyondgrep.com/install for the latest/greatest version. The solution above is hardcoded to a specific version. –
Alyciaalyda
Latest ack is 2.18 and you can no longer use the "http" url, you must use https. Will edit accordingly. –
Philippopolis
Could be essentially the same as https://mcmap.net/q/759461/-install-ack-grep-on-centos but on CentOS 6.7 the answer is:
# yum install epel-release
# yum install ack
if you don't have the root permission, you can do as follows:
$ curl https://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.22-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
or you can change to root user:
$ sudo su
# curl https://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.22-single-file > /bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
Be sure to always check beyondgrep.com/install for the latest/greatest version. The solution above is hardcoded to a specific version. –
Alyciaalyda
Latest ack is 2.18 and you can no longer use the "http" url, you must use https. Will edit accordingly. –
Philippopolis
You can get it from the EPEL software repository.
From the EPEL FAQ:
For EL5:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm'
...
su -c 'yum install ack'
For EL6:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm'
...
su -c 'yum install ack'
Sweet, just tried a
yum install ack on CentOS 6 and it "just worked" woot. –
Basque Go to Beyond Grep and look at the section titled
Install The ack executeable
curl http://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.14-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 !#:3
And replace ack.2.14 with the current version of ack.
You may need to create the directory
mkdir ~/bin/first. You may also need to modify ~/.bashrc to include this new path E.G.:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
Then reload ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Test the installation by running ack:
rpm -qa | ack s
This should display any installed packages containing the letter s. (some linux distributions may use ack-grep as the command.
Latest version is 2.18, and you have to use https.
curl https://beyondgrep.com/ack-2.18-single-file > ~/bin/ack && chmod 0755 ~/bin/ack –
Philippopolis How did you try installing it? Are you using yum? The package is probably not called "ack-grep", but just "ack".
The name "ack-grep" is a Debian-specific thing because there was already a package called "ack", so they called it "ack-grep" instead. That was years ago and now they're dropping the original "ack" package and renaming "ack-grep" to "ack".
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