Which terminal command do you use the most?

[DavidOBrien]

I rely on command history a *lot* and I was curious to know which commands I use the most. I found this on Reddit, and the results are interesting. You might have to tweak the command a bit to suit your shell.

$ history | awk '{CMD[$4]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a; }' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10
     1  1697  17.5491%    git
     2  1309  13.5367%    cd
     3  673   6.95967%    flamel
     4  520   5.37746%    find
     5  443   4.58118%    vi
     6  322   3.32989%    ll
     7  300   3.10238%    rm
     8  283   2.92658%    grep
     9  279   2.88521%    exit
    10  277   2.86453%    history

So which commands use up your day?

[David]

Does tab count as a command? Because if it does, I think we'll all have one clear winner.

[SandraM]

     1    4784  47.9311%    git
     2    1758  17.6135%    cd
     3    1039  10.4098%    ls
     4    756   7.57439%    ccutil
     5    145   1.45276%    sudo
     6    145   1.45276%    ssh
     7    140   1.40267%    more
     8    113   1.13215%    vi
     9    110   1.10209%    ansible-playbook
    10    74    0.741409%   mv

[Lisenet]

     1	3816  44.6629%    ssh
     2	1543  18.0595%    exit
     3	325   3.80384%    scp
     4	307   3.59316%    ls
     5	204   2.38764%    ping
     6	199   2.32912%    cd
     7	197   2.30571%    sudo
     8	170   1.9897%     for
     9	140   1.63858%    vim
    10	117   1.36938%    sed

I now wonder if I should used Alt+F4 more often.

[Bodanel]

   1  259  25.9259%   git

     2  176  17.6176%   ssh

     3  141  14.1141%   vim

     4  125  12.5125%   cd

     5  74   7.40741%   ls

     6  54   5.40541%   ansible-playbook

     7  32   3.2032%    ssh-copy-id

     8  23   2.3023%    cp

     9  18   1.8018%    ssh-add

    10  16   1.6016%    less

[MarcusBurghardt]

Nice. : )

     1    240  24%    ssh
     2    175  17.5%  ls
     3    108  10.8%  cd
     4    83   8.3%   ping
     5    68   6.8%   vim
     6    30   3%     sudo
     7    30   3%     git
     8    19   1.9%   df
     9    17   1.7%   host
    10    16   1.6%   ip

[Priyanshu]

Being a beginer to RHEL I use 
1 588 58.8%
2 39 3.9% install
3 24 2.4% smbd
4 10 1% vsftpd
5 10 1% dlib
6 9 0.9% face_recognition
7 7 0.7% samba
8 6 0.6% new.jpg
9 6 0.6% arduino
10 5 0.5% smb

[Berto]

The HISTSIZE environment variable still set at the default of 1000, so my results are likely scoped on what I was last working on :-).

------------------
1 191 19.1% ls
2 190 19% docker
3 132 13.2% cd
4 58 5.8% sudo
5 49 4.9% ssh
6 46 4.6% nmcli
7 33 3.3% cat
8 30 3% vi
9 30 3% ping
10 22 2.2% ip
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[shichen]

I have to replace `$4` with `$2` in my Fedora system. It goes like:

history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a; }' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10

1 2087 20.7703% ls
2 1648 16.4013% cd
3 940 9.3551% vi
4 479 4.76712% cat
5 450 4.4785% git
6 402 4.0008% sudo
7 311 3.09514% grep
8 306 3.04538% ssh
9 260 2.58758% clear
10 251 2.49801% mv

[Bowe-GLS]

don't know about most common command, but here's my most common 2nd arguments... 

 bowe  ~  history | awk '{CMD[$4]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a; }' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10
1 720 72%
2 37 3.7% -n
3 27 2.7% user-lab
4 17 1.7% -t
5 17 1.7% grep
6 8 0.8% .
7 7 0.7% do
8 6 0.6% fixture
9 6 0.6% -d
10 6 0.6% config

[erailine]

Like others, I tend to do a lot of work remotely on multiple machines, so I don't know that this is really indicative for me, but it's fun. I'm also on a Mac with zsh, so I used Hightechredneck's variant one-liner:

     1 146  15.1295%   ls

     2 128  13.2642%   kubectl

     3 86   8.91192%   vi

     4 57   5.90674%   cd

     5 46   4.76684%   oc

     6 37   3.8342%    mctl

     7 35   3.62694%   pwd

     8 30   3.10881%   terraform

     9 24   2.48705%   ansible-playbook

    10 23   2.38342%   ssh