Re: [Hampshire] Top ten commands in history

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Author: hantslug
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To: Alan Pope, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Top ten commands in history
On Wednesday 31 Jan 2007 12:19, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:18:18AM +0000, Alex wrote:
> > >We also learn that su and sudo hide the interesting part of the command.
> > >  Can someone who is clever at awk change the script
> > >        history | awk '{print$2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -n
> > >to pick out the second word if the first is either 'su' or 'sudo' (or a
> > >Bash-style 'ENVVAR=value' prefix)?

> >
> > I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the commands accessed through
> > sudo on this list would be 'apt-get'. Am I wrong? :)
>
> alan@wopr:~$ history | awk '$2 ~ /^(sudo|[^[:blank:]]+=)/{print $2 " "
> $3;next}{print
>
> > $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -n 10
>
>      43 sudo apt-get
>       3 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VirtualBox
>       2 sudo powernowd
>       2 sudo modprobe
>       2 sudo make
>       2 sudo ls
>       2 sudo kill
>       2 sudo chmod
>       2 sudo apt-mirror
>       2 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VBoxSVC&

>
> Nope :)


You seem to me to have ably demonstarted that in your case at least Alex was
right. 43 to 19. I make that a clear majority for sudo apt-get.

Lisi