How to make ack include .conf files?

Question

How to configure ack (sometimes distributed as ack-grep) to always include .conf files into search?

Crenel

Answer 1

Add the following to your .ackrc file:

--type-set=conf=.conf

Personally, I have one line in my .ackrc, which tells it to search all files:

-a

Rosana

If you're using -a, then you might as well be using grep. – Sillabub

@Andy -a still skips certain (almost always unwanted) directories and a few file types. And I still find ack's default output mode to be more pleasing than grep – Rosana

Nowadays I always type ack-grep -ai <searchstring> because I have too many servers to configure :) – Crenel