See your top 10 most used terminal commands
This is a neat trick to see what terminal commands you use most. I like to use this line of code to see where I can be more efficient within terminal.
history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
Written by Eric Raio
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My version is a little bit longer:
function most-used --description 'Print most used commands'
history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head $argv
end
over 1 year ago
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Cool. I posted a tip similar to this in the past, with some nice suggestions by other devs: https://coderwall.com/p/o5qijw.
over 1 year ago
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218 git
49 ls
38 cd
22 sudo
21 composer
19 bower
14 nano
13 ssh
12 al
9 grep
over 1 year ago
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gxela php developer?
My top:
110 ssh
92 cd
78 ls
57 ping
54 git
24 vi
10 dig
7 ll
6 ifconfig
6 cat
over 1 year ago
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My most used
3251 g
1051 e
877 ls
753 rm
690 y
475 cat
358 less
355 sudo
351 cd
302 echo
Pretty big usage of Git and Vim.
over 1 year ago
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127 ls
100 cd
97 git
62 gs
33 open
10 sh
9 install
7 npm
7 node
6 mocha
over 1 year ago
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I'm use this: https://github.com/degtyarev-dm/mpclu
over 1 year ago
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