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My Most Popular Command Line Commands

Tuesday, Sep 4, 2018
What commands do you use most on command line? As a daily (hourly) linux user, I use command line tools for almost everything that I do. Opening files, copying, moving, making connections (ssh), starting containers (docker). But what ones do I use most? Here is a little command to find out for yourself. Find out your top 10: history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10 My Top 10 1 488 16.1857% cd 2 425 14.0962% git 3 371 12.3051% ssh 4 337 11.1774% docker 5 335 11.1111% ls 6 118 3.91376% aws 7 115 3.81426% sudo 8 94 3.11774% code 9 65 2.15589% docker-compose 10 60 1.99005% vim What does this say about me? Well, first off, I should say that this is not necessarily unexpected. I use cd a lot, which is mainly to move between directories. You can also see that I use docker and docker-compose quite often. And also that almost everything is in git. ...