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!

Answer 1

0	`86 cd 80 ls 31 su 21 sbcl 16 whereis 14 chmod 10 ssh 10 exit 9 mysql` link answered 06 Jun '10, 15:04 Amos 132●1●3●12 accept rate: 0%

Answer 2

0	`128 sudo 42 cd 41 ls 15 hw 9 ./configure 7 tar 7 gedit 6 mv 5 uptime 5 echo` That's my fresh install :) link answered 06 Jun '10, 20:18 nocountryman 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 3

0

I do all my email with mutt, and have an alias for fetchmail with 'get', so get and mutt are way at the top of my list. As for the rest, I spend a lot of time just pottering around.

126 mutt
70 get
62 ls
46 cd
21 vi
19 ssh
15 su
13 telnet
12 sftp
10 mount

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answered 07 Jun '10, 19:45

codebunny
408●1●6
accept rate: 38%

Do you use su for root access or for other users?

(07 Jun '10, 20:33) guerda

I use it for root access for myself. There are no other users.

(11 Jun '10, 23:08) codebunny

Answer 4

0	`280 sudo 126 ls 103 cd 44 aptitude 36 su 31 top 29 pkill 26 df 19 rm 19 clear` link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 11 Jun '10, 20:57 Alex 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 5

0	1 month old install: `142 ls 80 cd 40 su 20 exit 17 mc 15 rm 11 gcc 10 ln 9 clear 9 ./a.out` link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 12 Jun '10, 17:20 Olivia 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 6

0	58 sudo 49 ps 48 ls 39 kill 33 cd 27 which 12 man 12 df 11 java 11 du link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 15 Jun '10, 22:41 Te Amigo 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 7

0	1 cut Brand new install -lol!! link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 16 Jun '10, 00:31 nanodiamoand 1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 8

0

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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This answer is marked "community wiki".

answered 03 Jul '10, 02:23

tallship
390●1●11
accept rate: 20%

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

0

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...
23●3
accept rate: 0%

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