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Getting to know a completely new programming project

So since Feb this year, i have been assigned on a new project at work. This new project involves working with a variety of independent sub-projects for this client and the sheer variety of the sub-projects can sometimes be overwhelming. What has happened a few times is that, the client starts a new sub-project, hands it to us and says we need this application to do "X". Can you make it do that? So the task is assigned to me and I have a project with no documentation, no instructions but I need to get on with it and solve the issue as soon as i can. So how do i approach this? Since i work on a mac,  which basically has the very awesome terminal that amongst others, has this useful tool called grep.  How do i use it for my needs?  well say i have an  AngularJS  project, stored in a folder projFolder,  and i have no prior knowledge of how it is structured and i have to figure out why a controller does not navigate to route blog after a certain function ca...