My ten most-frequently-used shell commands
Here they are:
$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
80 cd
59 svn
49 bzr
40 sudo
35 vi
32 nosetests
26 l
15 rfcomm
14 screen
14 c
l is an alias for ls and c is an alias for clear. rfcomm is how I connect to my mobile phone over a virtual serial port via bluetooth.
I’m happy that vi and nosetests are right next to each other. It looks like I’m pretty good about rerunning my test cases after editing.
I got the idea for this post from this guy.
Martin Andrews said,
April 11, 2008 @ 1:31 am
Hmm - here is what I got:
166 vi
121 curl
115 winto
98 ssh
45 ping
44 cvs
43 dig
39 grep
32 ./test-dc2-dc3
32 cd
This is just from my base machine at work - but since I generally work on many dozens of server I suppose I should come up with a really clever script to tally across all of them. For decoding - winto is an alias for screen/ssh and test-dc2-dc3 was a script i was working on to test tonights network maintenance. Not surprising that 4 of my top 5 command involved connecting to other machines. Interesting to see that vi is still the top.
matt said,
April 11, 2008 @ 10:38 am
Hi Martin!
You absolutely should write that script to grab logs from all those boxes.
Anyhow, a good reason to never upgrade to python 2.5 is that 2.5 includes sqlite in the standard library.
Ben said,
April 16, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
Matt & Martin…
`history|perl -lane ‘$h{$F[1]}++;END{print”$h{$_} $_”for(sort{$h{$b}$h{$a}}keys%h)[0..9]}’`
Ben said,
April 16, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
Eeek.. ignore the backtics..