What is the most used command in your shell?

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We all use the shell on a daily basis and know, what advantages it has.

I'd like you to post the most used commands you fired up in your shell.

If you use Bash, use this code:

cut -d\   -f 1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 | sed 's/.*/    &/g'

If you use ZSH, use this code:

history 1| awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n10

My Top 10 on a Subversion server is the following:

    135 cd
    113 ll
     73 vim
     59 less
     56 ls
     50 ps
     47 svnadmin
     47 df
     36 rm
     33 top

Now post your own!
Note: Please put 4 spaces in front of every row or click on the "Code" button (labeled with 101010). This makes your listing more readable.

Inspired by reddit.com. This question is marked as community wiki , so I'm not a reputation whore.

I learned you can close a shell without typing exit. Just press Ctrl+D!

Accepted Answer

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You can move a lot of the functionality into awk and remove a bunch of pipes via:

awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(x in a)print a[x],x}' ~/.bash_history | sort -rn | head

Anyway, here is my list that spans over a full month

1618 echo
746 man
414 awk
357 vi
341 ps
196 su
159 cat
122 ll
112 wcc
109 grep

I do a lot of bash scripting and compiling.

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answered 03 Jun '10, 20:43

SiegeX
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Interesting point with awk, thanks!

(04 Jun '10, 05:29) guerda

I accepted this question because there's no reason why not.

(15 Jul '10, 13:56) guerda

Answer 2

0	1170 ssh 525 shmux 299 ls 119 ping 113 nslookup 95 cat 83 vi 82 ps 80 getent 73 cd link answered 16 Jul '13, 03:22 slimer 1 accept rate: 0% edited 16 Jul '13, 03:23

Answer 3

0	Here is my list. I use mercurial (hg) repository for my projects. `261 hg 215 scbuild 209 cd 53 ./ltib 42 sudo 42 ls 27 make 21 ./generate_image.sh 17 cp 8 cat` link answered 31 May '13, 11:45 suvidh 11●1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 4

0	`318 sudo 112 cd 52 ls 50 rails 36 bundle 31 gem 29 rvm 12 nano` link answered 28 May '13, 00:15 Ahron Townsley 11●2 accept rate: 0% edited 28 May '13, 00:15

Answer 5

0	I have to say my most used commands are ls -l, free, df -h and sudo in Ubuntu and su in openSUSE. link answered 16 May '13, 15:43 Freshmeadow 71●1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 6

0	Mine 246 exit 129 ls 84 su 66 nmon* 52 cd 50 ssh 43 du 36 ping 31 crontab 25 tail link answered 11 Mar '13, 12:40 wsteward 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 7

1367 mv

1046 l ## an enhanced version of 'ls -l'

616 rm

595 locate

577 mvf ## specific-use wrapper for mv

450 mvie ## ditto

436 f ## the 'file' command

394 grep

369 cd

322 dic ## look up the arguments in several dictionaries

315 t ## 'less'

312 file

264 type

263 echo

235 ln

221 wget

221 man

219 calc ## Floating point calculator using awk

196 sudo

195 find

194 pr1 ## Print arguments, one to a line

178 xv

176 xx.sh ## file containing the latest snippet I'm working on

170 sed

157 xpdf

152 md ## 'mkdir' and optionally cd into the directory

137 urpmi ## function that calls 'sudo urpmi'

134 for

133 time

124 touch

123 r ## enhanced 'ls -lt'

121 lsc ## enhanced 'ls', basis for all other ls uses above

118 shgrep ## search shell scripts for a pattern

106 shcat ## find script and examine it with less

103 printf

103 cpsh ## Copy a script from development to production

In addition, there are app that are always open, and though used constantly, are only called once per session: alpine, emacs, slrn, bash, rxvt, firefox, vlc, gentoo

Answer 8

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Can't really say I'm surprised by any of these.

81 man
55 sudo
50 ls
31 cd
17 tmux
17 ./adb
11 nautilus
10 dd
 9 pknfo
 8 apropos

tmux is a screen alternative. adb is an android thing, and pknfo is a bash alias for aptitude show

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answered 28 Jul '10, 00:02

Klink-a-dink...
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Answer 9

0	These are my stats: `139 su 139 exit 89 ll 65 cd 47 yum 41 espeak 39 cat 34 renrot 31 rpm 16 ping` I see I'm the only one closing my consoles using exit :-) link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 24 Jul '10, 11:32 Andres 76●1●5 accept rate: 20%

Answer 10

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Here's a fresh box I just set up a few days ago and haven't had the time to really do much with ;)

 30 ls
 26 dig
 21 cd
 20 ssh
 14 pico
 13 whois
 11 man
 10 pine
 10 ./rsync_slackware-current.sh
 9 ping

Just gotta love that second to the last line there LOL!

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answered 03 Jul '10, 02:23

tallship
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