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Most used commands

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on September 24, 2006

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pravi@savannah:~$ history|awk ‘{print $2}’|awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c|sort -r|head -10
9 qemu
91 cd
8 free
8 du
87 ls
7 export
7 cat
6 ssh
6 pdftohtml
5 man

Thanks Karthik for that tip.

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1 Das
October 7, 2006 at 6:44 am

The above script doesn’t give the “most used” commands – as you can see 9 appears above 91.

A slight modification does the trick:
$ history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -10

i.e. instead of sort -r, use sort -rg which does a numeric sort.
–Das
2 Praveen A
October 7, 2006 at 8:21 am

Das,
Thanks a lot for the tip.