petdance/ack — Issue #194: multiple patters on same line in random order
Author: Tux
Created: 2011-11-08 09:38:38+00:00
State: open

Something to be able to ack on multiple words on the same line in whatever order, so that (suggestion)

$ ack -i -w -e run -e like -e hell

=>

m{(?=.*\b run \b)(?=.*\b like \b)(?=.*\b hell \b)}xi

which is no fun typing from the command line