History meme

Well, everyone else is doing it... I only installed a week or two ago, so this probably doesn't say much (or maybe it does?):

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
74 make
60 ls
59 sudo
47 cd
33 svn
31 [censored]
30 git
23 vim
14 rm
13 grep

My work-pattern is to do my coding in anjuta (with the odd bits here and there in vim) and to have a terminal open that I build in, so that explains the high instance of 'make'... Not sure about the rest of it - sudo probably because I've had to edit a lot of config files/install a lot of packages... Interesting that for almost everyone else, 'cd' comes above 'ls'...

Comments (5) Thu, 10 Apr 2008

Thomas Thurman says:

I think most people these days don't use "ls"; they type the directory name and hit "tab" twice.

Thu Apr 10 18:37:47 2008

mike says:

And confirm with "y"? not so great...

Thu Apr 10 19:05:40 2008

iain says:

31 mplayer ~/.porn/*

Fri Apr 11 00:33:19 2008

ethana2 says:

You're funny.

896 sudo
896 apt-get
666 [censored]
7 cd
7 ls
3 other

Fri Apr 11 02:41:59 2008

michele says:

Interesting that for almost everyone else, 'cd' comes above 'ls'...

I have seen lots of people (even moderately experienced) that instead of:

ls a/b/c

do:

cd a
cd b
cd c
ls

Fri Apr 11 08:46:14 2008