Silver Searcher: ack but faster

As a frequent user of grep/ack for the codebase, ag seems to be a silver bullet, especially for the projects with large codebase. Available in rpm repositories. What’s so great about Ag? It is an order of magnitude faster than ack. It ignores file patterns from your .gitignore and .hgignore. If there are files in your source repo you don’t want to search, just add their patterns to a .ignore file....

January 23, 2017 · 1 min · anvyst

Fedy - tweaking your Fedora

Fedy lets you install multimedia codecs and additional software that Fedora doesn’t want to ship, like mp3 support, Adobe Flash, Oracle Java etc. Soon, soon I’ll get back to Linux, but for now, this link remains here. dnf install https://dl.folkswithhats.org/fedora/$(rpm -E %fedora)/RPMS/fedy-release.rpm dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm dnf install fedy

October 20, 2014 · 1 min · anvyst