Basildon Coder

Learned from Weiqi, who learned from KageSenshi, about a Fedora Planet shell history meme - post the results of running the following command on your linux box:

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

I won’t bother repeating the inevitable warning about the dangers of executing random shell scripts you find on the Internet, because I’m lazy and mean. Anyway, here’s the results from my webhosting box:

231 ll
171 vim
132 cd
50 screen
43 cat
39 tail
34 ls
34 cls
32 exit
31 wget

‘ll’ is an alias for ‘ls -l’, and ‘cls’ an alias for ‘clear’. No real surprises otherwise - I use vim for development over ssh, I tail my logs occasionally, and live in GNU Screen.

Here’s the output from my home box:

254 ll
181 cd
148 sudo
123 rm
123 ffmpeg
86 screen
83 ls
75 cls
72 vim
60 find

Quite similar actually, guess I’m set in my ways. The ffmpeg count is a bit of an anomaly, since I used it a lot recently to re-encode a bunch of Futurama rips for my mobile.

Not sure what to do with this remarkable intel, however. Perhaps I’ll use the data to generate an Identicon and use it as a favicon? Or, perhaps not.

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