Productivity System Step 8: Leave a Record

On your own machine, write a single command line that produces a dated snapshot of a project: the date, the file count, the directory count, and the number of TODO comments, all appended into one report file. Build it up one command at a time, checking the file with cat after each addition. Deliberately run a failing command and capture its error into a separate file with 2>, then confirm the two files hold different things. The skill is that a command's output is raw material you can direct, not just something that scrolls past.