Apr 22
Everybody is doing it
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?
lsmost of the time I’m only lookingcdthen I’m gonescpthe data is always greener on another hostgvimI do do some worksshbut I wish I was somewhere elsemvmaybe moving things around will help?mysqlok, just lately I’m playing around with MySQL replication, more about that laterlocateI’m so lostsutime to call upon a higher powerrmwhen all else fails try something destructive



April 23rd, 2008 at Wednesday, 8:28 am
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
April 23rd, 2008 at Wednesday, 11:20 am
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)
April 30th, 2008 at Wednesday, 5:08 pm
Work computer:
9 sudo
7 ls
5 cd
2 whois
2 ./flock
2 exit
1 xit
1 whereis
1 ssh
1 sftp