Sucker for commandline tools, ack

I'm a big sucker for good command line tools, often improved version of their (often) GNU originals.
One of these tools I simply love is ack. It saves me a lot of typing and produces a much nicer output:

And another one:

However ack has caused me some confusing moments, by default it searches only for files of a certain type. Basically meaning, it ommits files it doesn't know (by default). Small suggestion, to add -a to your .ackrc or just know what happens when you don't! I also added '.inc' in the list of php extensions, since it's commonly used.

It's a brilliant tool! Even though I was a bit sceptical about it at first, and it took me some time to fully trust it (because it's much faster). It's a good asset to my daily set of tools !