How do you ack for a file that contains two or more phrases/words?
@kirkbauer suggested
ack phrase2 `ack -l phrase1`
and that will indeed work. I prefer to use the $() syntax instead of ``` ` syntax
ack phrase2 $(ack -l phrase1)
With the release of ack 2.0, you get the -x switch so that you can do this:
ack -l phrase1 | ack -x phrase2
The -x tells ack to take the list of files to read from STDIN.
This should do the trick: perform first ack, get file list, look for second set of files.
ack phrase2 `ack -l phrase1`