yet another Perl power tool: ack - grep-like text finder

ack - grep-like text finder - metacpan.org - Perl programming language

added "Perl Power Tools" to the PPT "disambiguation page" on the English wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPT

I am curious, how long this entry will survive there. It's actually not referring to an existing article on the Perl Power Tools. It's just meant to tell "the reader", hey, there are these nice Perl Power Tools out there, and they also get abbreviated as PPT.

Well, yes, I could create a wikipedia stub page, but it would only have these 2 links:

• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CWEST/ppt-0.14/html/index.html
• https://metacpan.org/release/ppt

And maybe some short text with like 30 words from the first of these 2 links.

But for how long would this stub article survive on wikipedia?

PPT's perlish diff got released outside PPT a long time ago

Diff - Compare two files and print differences

PPT = Perl Power Tools: "Unix Reconstruction Project"

• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CWEST/ppt-0.14/html/index.html – maybe the best entrance to read up on the project
• metacpan.org/release/ppt

Welcome to the Unix Reconstruction Project.
Our goal is quite simply to reimplement the classic Unix command set in pure Perl, and to have as much fun as we can doing so.

I would really love to have a few more utilities in that collection:

• "seq" [link]
• …

Yes, the GNU coreutils do certain things much, much better, but still … – yet: you can install PPT privately and with a rather small footprint, which makes them rather suitable in certain corporate environments. 

Just a few goodies:

• tcgrep lets you traverse directory trees – more or less like ack (see below!)
• tail lets you follow multiple files simultaneously
• …

Parts of the collection with a separate life outside the collection:

• http://perl.plover.com/diff/
• …

A few utilities, that are not formally a part of this collection:

• metacpan.org/module/ack – grep-like text finder – more or less like tcgrep (see above!)
• …