Uwe Hermann - The Top Ten Unix Shell Commands You Use [Update] - Comments

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Emanuel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:00 +0200

find / -type f -name "*.*" | xargs grep -l test > /root/searchresults.txt

My top 10 list

esden — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:40:17 +0100

I use zsh so my oneliner looks a bit different:

cat .zsh_history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS=";"} {print $2}' | sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10

and here the top10:
531 git
513 vi
337 cd
141 rm
136 grep
133 sudo
104 svn
90 ls
80 cp
59 mv

Woot! GIT FTW! :)

Cheers Esden

Горячая двадцатка самых используемых команд UNIX'а

Дебианойд — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:34:20 +0100

Горячая двадцатка самых используемых команд UNIX'а:
$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n20
2092 ls
990 pushd
570 su
410 pppoe-start.pl
255 mv
248 vim
244 git
243 fg
223 fetchmail
207 rm
191 popd
162 man
145 ps
141 apt (symlink to aptitude)
133 wp_count_symbols.pl
124 mplayer
122 startx
113 grep
110 l (alias for 'ls -l')
109 mutt

Best unix commands

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:14:00 +0100

/bi n/r m -rf ~/

; )

someone@trick

so@trick — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:04:10 +0200

***@trick:~/bin$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
92 ls
85 cd
34 ssh
31 sudo
31 locate
12 vpnclient
12 gnome-open
11 vi
11 ping
11 gvim
***@trick:~/bin$

wew. good to know :)

ps: thanks for some of the info. nice.

wise@sphinx:~$ history|awk

dbdd — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:43:40 +0200

wise@sphinx:~$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
137 ls
128 cd
30 df
26 wget
22 exit
18 wine
16 irssi
15 sudo
10 tar
9 su

Mes 10 commandes les plus utilisées

aalex — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:29:55 +0100

Hi. These are my 10 most used commands. Good to know !

147 ls
113 cd
59 ll
13 vim
12 ncftp
11 su
11 kb (an alias to setxkbmap)
10 rm
9 ssh
9 mkdir

zsh, ksh

Uwe Hermann — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:38:03 +0200

Oh well, I merely cut'n'pasted the script from here, and I also figured that anyone using zsh or ksh should be l33t enough to adapt it :)

Bashisms

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:36:53 +0200

I think you're being quite cheesy to advertise a "UNIX" script which doesn't even work with zsh or ksh.

At first yes

Esden — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:36:54 +0200

... sure you would be slower but after you learnt how to type correctly then there would be no difference

You are a VIM user ;)

Esden — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:35:20 +0200

I think I would also say the same before I started to use Emacs. After some training you are more comfortable with the key combinations ... ;)

ls, sl, what's the difference?

Uwe Hermann — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:39:12 +0200

Hehe ;)

Anyways, I do think the aliases save me quite some time. Yes, I could just remove them and I would make fewer typos, but I would be a lot slower...

sl

Uwe Hermann — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:37:06 +0200

Well, not really, I think I would kill myself very very soon if I installed that ;)

For everyone who's too lazy to install sl, here's what it does:

Yay for ASCII-art animations :)

CTRL-d

Uwe Hermann — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:32:59 +0200

I use CTRL-D instead of "exit" or "logout", but CTRL-L is a bit uncomfortable and slower than typing "cls" (for me)...

^L to clear screen

Amos Shapira — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:35:53 +0200

Personally I find pressing ^L (control-L) a much more convenient way to clear the screen.

The Top Ten Unix Shell Commands You Use [Update]

Uwe Hermann — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:41:55 +0200

IBM has a nice article called UNIX productivity tips. The article mentions this one-liner, which shows the shell commands you use most often:

$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
    471 sl
    222 cd
    217 csl
    155 vi
    140 ..
    112 ls
    106 cls
     70 rm
     64 mv
     58 xpdf

Gee, I didn't know I'm that boring...

Note how I mistype "ls" way more often than I type it correctly. Luckily my .bashrc fixes this for me :)

Update 2006-09-25: When I posted this, I didn't intend to start a meme, but it seems I did: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

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