<p>How many TODO comments do you have in your codebase?</p>
<p>After posting <a href="/daily/2025/05/07/st">the grep command from the st repository</a>, I decided to check a project I'm working on.</p>
<p>Here's the command I ran:</p>
<pre><code class="plain">grep -rnE TODO web/modules/custom | wc -l
</code></pre>
<p>Different to the original, this command finds the number of TODO comments recursively in the custom modules directory and counts them using the <code>wc</code> command.</p>
<p>This gave me a result of 29 TODOs.</p>
<p>Some were added recently.</p>
<p>Some were added by Developers who no longer work on the project.</p>
<p>This is something I'll often do in the future to review the number of TODOs, fix them in-place or move them into a ticketing system.</p>
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<p>How many TODO comments do you have in your codebase?</p>
<pre><code class="plain">grep -rnE TODO web/modules/custom | wc -l
</code></pre>
<p>Different to the original, this command finds the number of TODO comments recursively in the custom modules directory and counts them using the <code>wc</code> command.</p>
<p>This gave me a result of 29 TODOs.</p>
<p>Some were added recently.</p>
<p>Some were added by Developers who no longer work on the project.</p>
<p>This is something I'll often do in the future to review the number of TODOs, fix them in-place or move them into a ticketing system.</p>