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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accept rate: 50%

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

1

Here's mine:

223 vi
179 ls
176 cd
55 svn
33 git
32 la
32 cp
27 rsync
23 rm
22 screen

This seems a little telling of only what I have been doing lately. For instance, I just tried to learn about git and so all 33 hits were from one session and very rarely used before. ll and la are aliases for ls. It is interesting as I had expected very different results. I will probably need to increase the size of my history cache and try again later. I look forward to seeing the results.

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answered 04 Jun '10, 04:57

kainosnous
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accept rate: 18%

That looks like a developer @ work :D

(07 Jun '10, 20:36) guerda

Answer 3

My development box:

1668 git
 945 make
 801 E     - script/alias that launch my editor (kwrite)
 740 cd
 551 ls
 466 sudo
 340 cat
 261 ll    - alias ls -lh
 250 K     - script/alias that open a file in my IDE (kate)
 229 rm

Personal laptop (and personal development):

 245 sudo  - admin (that much, I must say that this computer is fairly new, that's perhaps the reason)
 161 cd
  96 ls
  62 E     - script/alias that launch my editor (kwrite)
  61 cat
  54 s     - script that start the command in background and mute its output
  52 ll
  44 git
  41 yum   - install packages on my fedora
  36 ./tbuild  - my personal project of the moment

Answer 4

1

Here is mine:

113 cd
105 ll
60 lf
47 mytar
24 df
19 bzip2
14 rm
14 du
10 find
8 ps

mytar is a script I use daily that takes a directory and tar's into a bz2. :)

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answered 09 Jun '10, 19:50

Andy
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accept rate: 14%

edited 09 Jun '10, 19:53

guerda
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mytar...

Cheater ;)

(03 Jul '10, 02:40) tallship

Answer 5

0	18 ls 12 exit 10 sudo 9 cd 3 synclient 3 gnome-shell 3 apropos 2 whereis 2 rm 2 ll link answered 03 Jun '10, 04:39 FewClues 249●1●2●9 accept rate: 5%

Answer 6

0	At home, my Top Ten looks like this: `423 sudo 348 cd 148 l 133 ls 128 ll 116 rm 99 less 72 git 71 exit 64 vim` Much more sudo as on the subversion server. link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 03 Jun '10, 15:54 guerda 553●3●5●15 accept rate: 38%

Answer 7

0	`94 git 78 make 46 sudo 38 ls 26 ./autogen.sh 25 ./version_checker 25 man 17 rm 16 gedit 15 gcc` link answered 05 Jun '10, 05:31 Joehillen 146●2●5●12 accept rate: 40% If you replace gedit with emacs, you have approximately my most-used list! Go developers! :D (07 Jun '10, 22:48) Jazz ♦

Answer 8

0	`95 ssh 56 cd 31 su 30 echo 29 ll 27 ls 25 mplayer 15 mv 13 vi 12 man` link answered 05 Jun '10, 12:37 Fede 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 9

0	well, I'm a newbie so I sudo ls all the time to experiment with software link answered 05 Jun '10, 19:16 Ed 1 accept rate: 0% 1 What are you trying to do with sudo ls? (07 Jun '10, 20:35) guerda

Answer 10

0

     135 mc
     56 make
     35 configure
     33 qemu
     19 rmmod
     19 cls
     13 htop
     12 installpkg
     11 upgradepkg
     10 pkgtool

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answered 06 Jun '10, 04:55

Hendronicus
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accept rate: 0%

What's mc? Mic check?

(07 Jun '10, 20:34) guerda

Midnight Commander - Probably the best text mode file manager ever made.

(15 Jun '10, 19:30) Hendronicus

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