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I'm using ack (the grep replacement) on Windows XP under Strawberry Perl. Where should the .ackrc config file be placed, since ~/.ackrc is not reasonable on Windows?

+5  A: 

ack looks for either .ackrc or _ackrc under %HOME% or %USERPROFILE%.

jamessan
+4  A: 

For windows (MSWin32, anyway), ack looks in the following places and uses the first file found:

$ENV{ACKRC}
$ENV{HOME}/.ackrc
$ENV{HOME}/_ackrc
$ENV{USERPROFILE}/.ackrc
$ENV{USERPROFILE}/_ackrc

All but the first are subject to glob-expansion, so watch out for meta-characters in your environment variables.

When not on windows, HOME and USERPROFILE are replaced by ~ and HOME, respectively.

ysth
+4  A: 

The ack docs answer your question. Always check the docs. :)

brian d foy