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The Silver Searcher – A Code Searching Tool for Programmers

The Silver Searcher is a free and open source, cross platform source code searching tool similar to ack (a grep-like tool for programmers) but faster. It runs on Unix-like systems and Windows operating systems.

The major difference between the silver searcher and ack is that the former is designed for speed, and benchmark tests prove that it is indeed faster.

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