Is it possible to add a -G option to ~/.ackrc

When I do

ack -G "^.*$" "foo"

I get results... but when I put

-G "^.*$"

or

-G="^.*$"

or

-G
"^.*$"

in my `~/.ackrc/ I get no results... Does anyone know if 开发者_如何转开发-G can be used in ackrc?

It's a quoting problem. When executed on the command line:

$ ack -G="^.*$"

ack actually sees the following command line option (after quote processing by the shell)

-G=^.*$

without the quotes. Since the ~/.ackrc file is read without shell quote processing, place the above line without quotes into ~/.ackrc.

Update: That was only half of it. It looks like you need to use the following line in ~/.ackrc:

-G^.*$

I'm not completely sure why the = is not permitted there, but including it makes it part of the pattern, which is obviously not what you want.

You could alias ack to ack -G ?