How To Install ack on Mac with Brew

Package Information:

Name: ack
Use: Search tool like grep, but optimized for programmers. Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written purely in portable Perl 5 and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions
URL: https://beyondgrep.com/

Installation Steps:

  1. Open Terminal using Spotlight search by pressing <command+space>. Type terminal and hit Enter key.
  2. Now, run
    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  3. Install ack using brew
    brew install ack

ack is ready to use now!