[base698]

These are just a few examples I do pretty frequently:

Nested Search:

  ag functionName | ag moreSpecificContextLikeArgs

Find variable changed yesterday:

  git log -p --since yesterday | ag varName

Find controllers changed yesterday:

  git log --oneline --showfile | ag controllers

What files did I work on last week:

  git log --name-only --oneline --author me --since 1.weeks

How many JS commits did I do last month?

  git log --since 1.months --author me  --name-only | ag -i '\.js$' | wc -l

How many JS commits did I do on each file last month?

   git log --since 1.months --author me  --name-only | ag -i '\.js$' | awk '{arr[$1]++} END {for(i in arr) print arr[i]," - ",i}' | sort -r -n

Change a "classname" from MyClass to BetterName:

  ag MyClass # verify it only finds what you think it will
  ag MyClass | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | while read line 
  do
    sed -i' ' 's/MyClass/BetterName/g' $line
  done

[a_e_k]

Nested searches are handy. They can also be used to find cases of one thing within a few lines of proximity to another:

    ack -C5 firstThing | less
    /secondThing

One bonus ack trick that I like also like is bulk loading into Emacs for further manipulation (e.g., multi-occur and then occur-edit-mode):

    emacsclient -n `ack -l functionName`