Re: [Hampshire] Top ten commands in history

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Author: Victor Churchill
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Top ten commands in history
On 30/01/07, Jim Kissel <jlk@???> wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> >
> > 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

> >



fresh box installed just in December:
     55 sudo
     38 ssh
     23 ls
     19 locate
     16 cd
      7 tar
      6 more
      6 find
      6 emacs
      6 cat


works server:
     61 ls
     37 emacs
     30 cd
     17 LANG=C [1]
     16 nn2qq3 [2]
     13 while [3]
     13 ps
     10 su
      9 rm
      9 perl


[1] prefix to a perl -d debug session, where the debugger/CGI
combination seems to get bogged down in UTF8-land if I don't prefix it
with this.
[2] alias for an sqlplus this/that@theOther
[3] feeble atempt to stop ssh sessions timing out:
while true; do echo -n '.'; sleep 600; done &


> >
> > So, what are your top ten commands in the history? What can we learn from this? :)


1 - well we can tell what editors people use B-)
2 - you do more building on wopr and more watching on bishop B-)

nice one

victor