Create a continuously updated todo list from code comments. https://brianschrader.com/archive/todolist/

todolist.sh

#! /bin/bash
# Given the current working directory, find all of the files of the  
# type given and search for TODO comments in them and return a list
# of these items.
#
# Usage: todolist <dir> '*.py' 

DIR=$1
if [ -z "$DIR" ]; then
    DIR="."
fi

TYPES=$2
if [ -z "$TYPES" ]; then
    TYPES='*.py'
fi

INDENT="    "

get_results() {
    file=$1
    todos=$(cat "$file" | nl | grep -i -e '\bTODO\b:' "$file");
    echo "$todos" | while read todo; do
        if [ -n "$todo" ]; then
            text=$(echo "$todo" | sed 's/.*TODO[: ]*\(.*\) \(-->\)\{0,1\}/\1/');
            if [ -z "$text" ]; then
                printf "$INDENT- [Blank]\n"  
            else
                printf "$INDENT- $text\n"
            fi
        fi
    done
}

# Set the window title
# http://bit.ly/2k3BtgN
echo -n -e "\033]0;todolist\007"

# Process Files
while true; do
    lines=$(find "$DIR" -name "$TYPES" -type f | while read file; do
    results=$(get_results "$file");  
        if [ -n "$results" ]; then
            printf "$file\n$results\n\n"
        fi
    done);

    # Clear scrollback and render
    printf "\033c";
    cat << EOF
        --------------------------------------------------------
                            todolist
        --------------------------------------------------------
$lines
EOF
    sleep 10;
done;

Sweet! This is awesome. Using it.

I noticed my projects have inconsistent todo format ("to do:", "TODO:") so I forked and tweaked the matching a little bit. Also limited it to looking at comments since I got a couple matches on non-comments.

I've updated it with some new pretty printed output, and removed that pesky temp file.

Fix: New version doesn't detect words with todo in them (i.e. mastodon)

New version. This one strips ending comments from HTML comments.