ack search for content within Smarty TPL template files

Question

Is it possible to use ack to search for content within Smarty template files (.tpl)?

At the moment I can only search within the cached version of these templates, which themselves are PHP files.

If I do a case-insensitive ack search like this below this is what is returned:

[crmpicco@dev dev_crmpicco]$ ack -i select\ the\ course
cache/templates/gb/%%9B^9B3^9B37B147%%course.tpl.php
48:                             <p><label>Select the course:</label></p>
64:                             <p><label>Select the course:</label></p>
83:                             <p><label>Select the course:</label></p>

Answer 1

It sounds like what you're asking is "How do I get ack 1.x to recognize .tpl as a valid filetype?"

What you want is to put --type-set=smarty=.tpl on the command line or in the ACK_OPTIONS environment variable or in your .ackrc file. Then you can say things like "ack --smarty foo" and it will only search smarty files.

You probably also want to use --ignore-dir=cache so ack doesn't search in your cache directory.

Case sensitivity is unrelated to the issues here.

Answer 2

Your question isn't clear...

If you want to find filename of template, which is filled with some content after render, here is it (wtih bold):

cache/templates/gb/%%9B^9B3^9B37B147%%course.tpl.php