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Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep.

fzy logo fzy

A better fuzzy finder
  • ack Landing page
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    2023-03-24
  • fzy Landing page
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    2023-07-28

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PRODUCT REVIEW PowEver ACK-E18 AC Power Adapter Charger Kit for Canon EOS Rebel DSLR Cameras | #Tech

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to ack and fzy)

ack

fzy

File Manager
100 100%
File Manager
0% 0
Note Taking
27 27%
Note Taking
73% 73
Productivity
0 0%
Productivity
100% 100
Clipboard Manager
100 100%
Clipboard Manager
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, fzy seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

ack mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of ack yet. Tracking of ack recommendations started around Mar 2021.

fzy mentions (4)

  • GNOME 44
    > it supports my keystrokes You know that there is basically a standard set, imposed by Windows in about 1986 or something and also supported in GNOME 2, MATE, Xfce, LXDE, etc etc.? I am more interested in if it supports them. I mean, I don't know what your set are, and I am not for a moment saying there's anything wrong with them, but there are standards for this stuff, used heavily by millions of blind... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
  • Your favourite Rust CLI utilities this year?
    I've been mostly using fzy which is written in C. I hope skim's matching algorithm is as good as fzy's…. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder
    Am I the only one who prefers FZY ? https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • Looking for a neat Neovim config for wilder.nvim
    A while ago there was a post on this sub about a plugin called wilder.nvim which looks absolutely awesome. Wilder seems super configurable and it's README has a bunch of different suggested configurations. However, it is designed to work with both Vim and Neovim, but does have a config for Neovim, but it depends on kinda odd plugins like cpsm (which uses ctrlp.vim) as well as fzy. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ack and fzy, you can also consider the following products

ripgrep - ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep.

fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go

AstroGrep - AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility.

skim (fuzzy finder) - Discover open source libraries, modules and frameworks you can use in your code

dnGREP - dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.

Peco - Peco Foods, a poultry products provider for industrial, retail and food service markets, is dedicated to customer satisfaction, value and total quality management.

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