Productivity System Step 7: Search Your Own Code

On your own machine, go to a real project and answer these with grep, writing down each command. Where did you leave TODO comments, and how many are there. Which files mention a particular function name. How many lines of your code contain console.log or print, which is a quick way to find debugging you forgot to remove. Which lines of a config file are not comments, using -v against the comment character. Then try grep -rni on a term you only half remember, and notice that being able to search contents rather than names changes how you navigate unfamiliar code.