<h1>sack</h1>

<p>s(hortcut)-ack: a faster way to use ack (and grep)!</p>

<p>sack acts as a wrapper for ack to provide convenience for the repetitive menial tasks</p>

<h2>What is ack?</h2>

<p>ack is the replacement for grep!</p>

<p>Here is why you should use ack over grep: http://betterthangrep.com/</p>

<p>(Now that you are sold on ack) To install ack in a one-line script:</p>

<pre><code>curl http://betterthangrep.com/ack-standalone &gt; ~/bin/ack &amp;&amp; chmod 0755 !#:3

</code></pre>

<h2>How to Install:</h2>

<p>Open a terminal and run the following:</p>

<pre><code>git clone git@github.com:sampson-chen/sack.git &amp;&amp; cd sack &amp;&amp; chmod +x install_sack.sh &amp;&amp; ./install_sack.sh

</code></pre>

<h2>How to Use:</h2>

<p>You can use sack in exactly the same way you currently use ack! Woot!</p>

<p>For why sack is faster (and more fun!) to use, read on about its main / side features...</p>

<h2>Main Feature 1 - Shortcuts:</h2>

<p>sack prefixes shortcut tags to ack's search res