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DavidOBrien
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Which terminal command do you use the most?

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?

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Trevor
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If I could give 3 thumbs up, I would.  That's a well-architected command-line.  Fantastic!

Trevor "Red Hat Evangelist" Chandler
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Yasser107
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The top command is:

# ll 

djobix
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Im a Fedora user, recently im move to Silverblue 

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
1 310 67.3913%
2 19 4.13043% install
3 16 3.47826% --progress
4 15 3.26087% --container
5 8 1.73913% -grtvuspo
6 6 1.30435% wps
7 5 1.08696% -Rv
8 5 1.08696% --force
9 4 0.869565% mkchromecast_0.3.8.1-1_all.deb

 


10 3 0.652174% 777

Djobix
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vmateti
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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 96  19.2%  oc

     2 68  13.6%  kubectl

     3 61  12.2%  cd

     4 32  6.4%   ls

     5 28  5.6%   vi

     6 27  5.4%   docker

     7 20  4%     git

     8 18  3.6%   curl

     9 11  2.2%   mkdir

    10 10  2%     ocn

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