Question:
I am using Ack version 2.04, in PowerShell. I want to search texts like “jsonClass”:”Page” (quotes included) inside text files.
I can’t seem to get the quoting and escaping correct.
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ack -c --match '"jsonClass":"Page"' |
It doesn’t work in PowerShell. I guess ack’s picking up the single quotes as well.
Escaping the double quotes gives an invalid regex error:
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ack -c --match "\"jsonClass\":\"Page\"" Invalid regex '\': Trailing \ in regex m/\/ at C:\CHOCOL~1\lib\ACK2~1.04\content\ack.pl line 315 |
I tried the literal option as well, but I think ack’s interpreting the colon as file parameters.
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ack -c -Q --match "jsonClass":"Page" ack.pl: :Page: No such file or directory |
What am I missing?
I am using PowerShell v2.
Answer:
If ack is a function it could happen that -c is interpreted by PowerShell. Can you test the following?
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ack '-c' '--match' '"jsonClass":"Page"' |
-c --match should be interpreted as --match is the value of parameter c in function ask.
If it’s an EXE file, try:
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ack -c --match '\"jsonClass\":\"Page\"' |