---
abstract: 'A grep-like program for searching source code'
author:
  - 'Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>'
build_requires:
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker: '0'
configure_requires:
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker: '0'
dynamic_config: 1
generated_by: 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 7.70, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.143240'
license: artistic_2
meta-spec:
  url: http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html
  version: '1.4'
name: ack
no_index:
  directory:
    - t
    - inc
requires:
  Cwd: '3.00'
  File::Basename: '1.00015'
  File::Next: '1.18'
  File::Spec: '3.00'
  File::Temp: '0.19'
  Getopt::Long: '2.38'
  List::Util: '0'
  Pod::Perldoc: '3.20'
  Pod::Text: '0'
  Pod::Usage: '1.26'
  Scalar::Util: '0'
  Term::ANSIColor: '1.10'
  Test::Harness: '2.50'
  Test::More: '0.98'
  Text::ParseWords: '3.1'
  filetest: '0'
  if: '0'
  parent: '0'
  perl: '5.010001'
  version: '0'
resources:
  MailingList: https://groups.google.com/group/ack-users
  bugtracker: https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack3
  homepage: https://beyondgrep.com/
  license: https://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-20.html
  repository: git://github.com/beyondgrep/ack3.git
version: v3.8.1
