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	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 2

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 3

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 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

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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This answer is marked "community wiki".

answered 09 Jun '10, 19:50

Andy
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accept rate: 14%

edited 09 Jun '10, 19:53

guerda
553●3●5●15

mytar...

Cheater ;)

(03 Jul '10, 02:40) tallship

Answer 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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     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
11●2
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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