<p>We all use the shell on a daily basis and know, what advantages it has.</p> has.</p> <p>I'd like you to post the most used commands you fired up in your shell.</p> shell.</p> <p>If you use <strong>Bash</strong>, use this code:</p> code:</p> <pre><code>cut -d\ -f 1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 | sed 's/.*/ &amp;/g' </code></pre> &amp;/g' </code></pre> <p>If you use <strong>ZSH</strong>, use this code:</p> code:</p> <pre><code>history 1| awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n10 </code></pre> -n10 </code></pre> <p>My Top 10 on a Subversion server is the following:</p> following:</p> <pre><code> 135 cd cd 113 ll ll 73 vim vim 59 less less 56 ls ls 50 ps ps 47 svnadmin svnadmin 47 df df 36 rm rm 33 top </code></pre> top </code></pre> <p>Now post your own!<br> own!<br> <strong>Note:</strong> Please put 4 spaces in front of every row or click on the "Code" button (labeled with <code>101010</code>). This makes your listing more readable.</p> readable.</p> <p>Inspired by <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bmlg3/the_most_used_unix_commands/" rel="nofollow">reddit.com</a>. This question is marked as <img src="http://linuxexchange.org/faq" alt="community wiki">, so I'm not a reputation whore.</p> whore.</p> <p>I learned you can close a shell without typing <code>exit</code>. Just press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd>!</p>

<p>We all use the shell on a daily basis and know, what advantages it has.</p> <p>I'd like you to post the most used commands you fired up in your shell.</p> <p>If you use <strong>Bash</strong>, use this code:</p> <pre><code>cut -d\ -f 1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10 | sed 's/.*/ &amp;/g' </code></pre> <p>If you use <strong>ZSH</strong>, use this code:</p> <pre><code>history 1| awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n10 </code></pre> <p>My Top 10 on a Subversion server is the following:</p> <pre><code> 135 cd 113 ll 73 vim 59 less 56 ls 50 ps 47 svnadmin 47 df 36 rm 33 top </code></pre> <p>Now post your own!<br> <strong>Note:</strong> Please put 4 spaces in front of every row or click on the "Code" button (labeled with <code>101010</code>). This makes your listing more readable.</p> <p>Inspired by <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bmlg3/the_most_used_unix_commands/" rel="nofollow">reddit.com</a>. This question is marked as <img src="http://linuxexchange.org/faq" alt="community wiki">, so I'm not a reputation whore.</p> <p>I learned you can close a shell without typing <code>exit</code>. Just press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd>!</p>