[PLUG] Your favorite $SHELL verbs

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue May 6 20:39:14 UTC 2008


I saw this on Jesse Keating's blog (which he apparently lifted from a 
Planet Fedora discussion), a one-liner for discovering your favorite 
shell commands:

   history |\
   awk '{ a[$2]++ } END{ for( i in a ) { print a[i] " " i } }' |\
   sort -rn |\
   head

It won't take into account commands that are not the first token in 
any given line -- maybe they've been invoked by a wrapper like sudo or 
they sit on the other end of a pipe -- but it's still sort of 
interesting, in a navel-gazing sort of way.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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