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Topic: Top 10 commands you use frequently

Run this:

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

And post your results. For me its:

187 install
164 sudo
157 purge
75 upgrade
51 man
44 pacman
41 ka
39 aurinstall
30 aurupgrade
19 gksudo

And 6 of those are aliases.

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

101 sudo
41 ls
40 cd
32 date
25 cat
18 java
16 jython
15 rm
13 xrandr
13 xmllint


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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

10 yaourt
3 startx
2 wget
1 ncmpcpp

... eh?

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  • Registered: 2009-09-13
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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

154 sudo
46 cd
22 exit
18 ./configure
17 mount
16 tint2
16 make
14 man
9 python
7 xprop

I guess I restart tint2 a lot..

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

221 sudo
19 sync
15 cd
14 ifconfig
12 smbnetfs
12 ./change-type.sh
10 dd
9 smbtree
9 pragha
8 ls

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

70 sudo
56 man
31 ./zen-status
26 reload
25 cd
22 crontab
13 source
13 rotate-wallpaper
12 mount
11 suspend-script

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

102 sudo
69 ncmpcpp
63 irssi
50 mpd
50 exit
19 newsbeuter
19 killall
17 cd
16 alsamixer
15 alsar

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

118 ls
94 sudo
58 cd
36 exit
16 rm
14 python
13 nano
13 gcc
12 ps
12 kill

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

     60 sudo
     44 screen
     41 ls
     34 exit
     25 cd
     24 nano
     17 source
     15 echo
     14 strigicmd
     13 ssh

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  • From: Cochituate, MA
  • Registered: 2009-01-21
  • Posts: 258

Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

This is on a freshly reinstalled partition:

34 sudo
27 cd
19 ll
5 ln
5 df
5 cat
4 vi
4 ltr
4 ls
4 cp

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  • Registered: 2009-10-22
  • Posts: 27

Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

115 man
62 ls
53 apropos
40 cd
31 exit
29 sudo
13 xb
12 cal
8 mocp
7 skyrocket

newbie here and it is obvious smile

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

on my current #!/.* usb os:

79 sudo
48 cd
44 man
26 sda
22 ls
17 htop
14 ftp
8 unetbootin
7 ln
6 xcalc


& on my other main operating system:

104 sudo
59 ls
48 eix
42 htop
30 man
15 cd
13 ftp
10 wget
8 whois
7 kicker

only a couple scripts/aliases in all that.

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  • From: Cochituate, MA
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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

This is from my desktop at work (also running #!):

139 p2-ssh
123 nslookup
27 rdp
25 cd
24 sudo
19 ll
13 exit
12 ping
11 ssh
10 dig

p2-ssh, rdp and ll are aliases to one-line scripts to execute ssh, rdesktop and ls, respectively.

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

wow... i really don't do much but exit the terminal...

123 exit
119 sudo
35 wine
24 wineserver
23 pcsx
23 dir
23 cd
12 winetricks
12 wget
2 vba

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

99 sudo
75 ls
60 cd
26 ssh
22 find
20 apt-cache
19 vim
18 sshfs
18 man
13 cp

could be fun to aggregate the results :-)

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

16 sudo
7 startx
5 yaourt
5 su
3 killall
2 nano
2 ipod-read-sysinfo-extended
2 gksu
2 conky
1 ~/.xinitrc

After one day of using my fresh Arch install.

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  • From: Nagoya, Japan
  • Registered: 2009-01-07
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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

39 echo
38 man
36 for
30 time
29 ls
12 wc
12 t2
12 pkg
12 curl
11 unset

Not sure if that proves anything (t2 was a temporary function).

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

254 sudo
16 ps
15 xprop
15 vboxmanage
12 poff
12 ls
11 sort
9 wine - despite I used for a single day once...
9 renice
9 openbox

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

103 sudo
99 ls
65 vim
56 cd
45 ./tpPasswd.sh
16 mutt
8 cat
7 grep
6 rm
6 gedit
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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

50 sudo
12 cd
11 apt-get
10 l
6 update-alternatives
5 adonthell
3 snes9x
2 umount
2 svn-backup-dumps
2 set

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

20 sudo
14 exit
2 srware
2 history
1 twords
1 tword
1 twisted
1 run
1 program
1 passwd
Just reinstalled this a couple of weeks ago, so I haven't really done much with it.

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

1 sudo
1 history

tongue big_smile

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

^ lol

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

cbdxs wrote:

^ lol

Might have been using bleachbit that i get that sparse info... ??

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Re: Top 10 commands you use frequently

What is bleachbit?

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