Productivity System Step 6: Take Stock

On your own machine, pick a real project directory. Using find, answer these questions and write down each command: how many source files it contains, how many directories, whether any file is named something you have forgotten the location of, and whether there are any stray files you meant to delete. Pipe the results into wc -l where a count is what you want. Then practice Tab completion deliberately for ten minutes, refusing to type any path in full. The goal is that find replaces the search box and Tab replaces careful typing.