bin/ack-wrapper

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # Wrapper around 'ack' to crawl all directories from $PWD to / (or $HOME)
   3 # looking for a "local" .ackrc file. Useful for setting project-level
   4 # --ignore-dir settings.
   5
   6 PWD=$(pwd)
   7 HOME=~
   8 ACKARGS=""
   9
  10 match=""
  11 dir="$PWD"
  12 while [ "$dir" != "/" -a "$match" = "" ]; do
  13     if [ -e "$dir/.ackrc" ]; then
  14         if [ "$dir" != "$HOME" ]; then
  15             match=1
  16             echo "(Include: ${dir}/.ackrc)"
  17             ACKARGS="$(egrep "^[^#]" "${dir}/.ackrc" | xargs) $ACKARGS"
  18         else
  19             match=0
  20         fi
  21     else
  22         dir=$(dirname "$dir")
  23     fi
  24 done
  25
  26 command ack $ACKARGS $*