Alan Pope wrote:
> I've seen this on IRC before but have not seen it mentioned on the mailing list. It's just a bit of fun
> to find out what the most common commands are in your history. Neil takes credit for actually writing
> it, I just run it on boxes when bored :)
>
> On my Ubuntu desktop:-
>
> alan@wopr:~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -n 10
> 105 cd
> 88 ls
> 64 sudo
> 29 ssh
> 14 cat
> 14 apt-cache
> 10 ./configure
> 9 wget
> 9 ping
> 7 history
>
> on one of my Debian servers:-
>
> alan@bishop:~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -n 10
> 129 sudo
> 89 cd
> 73 ls
> 67 screen
> 15 vi
> 15 grep
> 10 top
> 10 date
> 9 ping
> 7 tail
>
> So, what are your top ten commands in the history? What can we learn from this? :)
>
jlk@jlk-desktop:~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort
-rg | head -n 10
101 ls
87 cd
53 sudo
29 man
23 rm
22 du
20 led
20 cat
19 ssh
15 file
jlk@jlk-desktop:~$
led is 'ls -lt|head -20'
> Cheers,
> Al.
>