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Everybody is doing it

, , , , , david, Tuesday, 9:50 pm

The top 10 commands from your shell meme. Here’s mine (from my server rata):

history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
159 ls
117 cd
59 scp
29 gvim
28 ssh
24 mv
21 mysql
20 locate
19 su
13 rm

So what does this say?

  • ls most of the time I’m only looking
  • cd then I’m gone
  • scp the data is always greener on another host
  • gvim I do do some work
  • ssh but I wish I was somewhere else
  • mv maybe moving things around will help?
  • mysql ok, just lately I’m playing around with MySQL replication, more about that later
  • locate I’m so lost
  • su time to call upon a higher power
  • rm when all else fails try something destructive

3 Responses to “Everybody is doing it”

  1. david says:

    On my work laptop (ice)
    191 ls
    140 make
    134 cd
    121 gvim
    61 caseworker.py
    49 p4
    28 grep
    27 python
    24 nm
    18 cp

  2. Michelle says:

    Oh cool, my turn:

    random work ‘puter:
    264 la (alias to ls -latr)
    213 cd
    90 vi
    42 su
    33 ls
    29 cat
    26 svn
    23 ping (are you there?)
    19 rm
    18 grep (searching for the meaning of life)

    home ‘puter:
    125 cd
    85 la
    72 ls
    34 echo
    29 vi
    26 sudo
    25 ssh
    17 scp
    14 cat
    12 ./test.pl (because perl always saves the day)

  3. brent says:

    Work computer:

    9 sudo
    7 ls
    5 cd
    2 whois
    2 ./flock
    2 exit
    1 xit
    1 whereis
    1 ssh
    1 sftp

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