The Top Ten Unix Shell Commands
A bit surprising, really.
: tfheen@thosu ~ > history 1|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -nr |head -n 10
21477 ls
18170 cd
10640 ssh
9257 sudo
5559 less
3015 grep
2407 bzr
2101 ps
1980 man
1980 debuild
For those of you wondering why there is no editor on the list; I use
emacs and it’s in the 11th place (with 1903 runs). I tend to let it run
for a while and open more than one file, so it doesn’t get that high on
the list. I also cd
and ls
a lot.