"Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale / gmail.com> writes:
> On 12/6/07, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard / gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:
>>
>> > Inspired by ack?
>> >
>> > http://petdance.com/ack/
>> >
>>
>>
>> yeah i blogged that a while back
>>
>>    http://drawohara.com/post/19092746
>>
>> bil kleb forwarded it my way.  curiously, it'd just written search a
>> few days before.  of course ack is more fully featured - but i
>> figured i'd better release since ack is in perl and ruby outght to be
>> represent'n ;-)
>
> Hmmm, something must be in the air.  Shortly after reading this, my
> RSS reader delivered a post from Peter Cooper pointing to this:
> http://rak.rubyforge.org/

Also http://www.incava.org/projects/glark/, which is Ruby.

And of course also GNU grep, e.g. 
  grep -r --include=*.c PATTERN DIR

Steve