Because Everyone Is Doing It…

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 3:09 pm. 7 comments

Just in case anyone really cares even a teeny bit about my most used commands lulz.

JÅWßR∑AK∑R ~: history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
93 ls
90 cd
70 clear
68 svn
29 mate
26 sudo
16 ssh
16 git
15 python
6 ping

Via The B List.

7 Replies

  1. Oliver Apr 11th 2008

    oliver-beatties-imac:obeattie Oliver$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
    217 sudo
    77 python
    54 cd
    40 svn
    36 git
    10 git-svn
    9 rm
    8 mkdir
    6 patch
    6 ls

    I have to use sudo to restart Apache, which I probably should spend the 2 minutes on and fix…

  2. Michael Apr 11th 2008

    Or you could just run your local web server in single threaded mode and never need to worry about restarting it ever again :)

  3. Levi McCallum May 6th 2008

    Stillmotion:~ stillmotion$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
    53 sudo
    41 cd
    38 rake
    37 ls
    26 script/server
    15 script/generate
    13 ruby
    13 killall
    10 script/plugin
    10 script/console

  4. Devlin May 7th 2008

    113 ls
    83 cd
    77 sudo
    24 gedit
    18 python
    16 rm
    15 killall
    11 ./loadweb.rb
    10 chmod
    8 ruby

    My system is still pretty fresh, hence the ./loadweb.rb being up there.

  5. Katharine Osborne May 11th 2008

    75-95-230-206:~ kaos42$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
    109 ssh
    58 ls
    44 cd
    37 cp
    29 vi
    18 perl
    14 exit
    12 locate
    10 sftp
    8 rm

    ssh is the top because I’m mainly someplace else.

  6. Tim Jun 1st 2008

    Get ‘clear’ out of that list. ^L works so much faster.

  7. Andreas Jul 19th 2008

    MacBookPro:~ la$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
    67 cd
    45 sudo
    36 script/server
    30 ls
    28 curl
    22 top
    20 killall
    16 screen
    13 locate
    12 whois

    Agreed with Tim above about clear – just use -K in the Terminal, it doesn’t leave scrollback.


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