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by petdance 1694 days ago
The "print lines by number" was there because earlier versions of ack had a `--line=N` feature, where you could say "ack --line=15-18" and print those four lines. I dropped it because it was hardly any better than using sed.

If you've got suggestions on improvements, please submit an issue. I'd love to hear them.

https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/issues