Top 10 terminal commands

[stauntonel]

What are your favorite commands?

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history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr

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   105 ls
     77 apt-get
     75 cd
     43 apt-cache
     25 cat
     21 nano
     19 chmod
     16 cp
     12 locate
      8 man

[actionM]

Well I hope rickh is happy now. I'm addicted to aptitude.

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     15 su
     15 aptitude
      9 wine (i got guild wars going on wine, yay!)
      7 diakonos
      6 cd
      4 xhost
      4 WINEDEBUG=-all 
      2 winecfg
      2 updatedb
      2 ls

[x0as]

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    141 ls
     79 cd
     61 du
     40 df
     21 mv
     13 mkdir
     11 vncviewer
     10 rm
      8 more
      7 su

[Telemachus]

Desktop - Regular user:

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odysseus ~ $ history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
     61 rm
     54 ls
     29 su
     19 perl
     16 vim
     12 mkdir
      7 aptitude
      6 mv
      4 less
      3 ssh

Desktop - Root:

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root /home/odysseus #  history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
    125 aptitude
     33 exit
      9 man
      7 ls
      6 cd
      5 vim
      5 df
      4 nvidia-installer
      4 ifconfig
      3 update-alternatives

Laptop - Regular user:

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telemachus ~/perl_practice $ history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
    104 vim
    102 perl
     25 ls
     24 su
     19 aptitude
     18 echo
     18 cd
     17 exit
     14 man
     13 rm

Laptop - Root user:

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root /home/telemachus/perl_practice # history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
    139 aptitude
     68 exit
     32 smartctl
     25 ls
     22 rm
     20 ifconfig
     17 cd
     14 apt-get
     12 locate
     12 hdparm

Those all look about right to me. @ actionM - That's what Aptitude addiction looks like. You have a ways to go.

[987687]

on my laptop

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63 su
     56 ssh
     36 ls
     33 cd
     25 kb
     19 nano
     13 killall
     12 wine
     10 top
     10 cat

on my desktop

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67 su
     36 cd
     30 ls
     23 ssh
     18 killall
     16 kb
     15 nano
     14 firefox
     12 top
     12 pmount

on my mac server

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19 ls
  14 su
  14 ssh
  13 osascript
  13 echo
  12 mdutil
  11 cd
   9 uptime
   9 nano
   7 nice

[Silenus]

135 su
71 apt-cache
27 cat
24 ls
11 convert
9 vim
7 wine
7 mplayer
7 mp3blaster
7 exit

[Bro.Tiag]

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Sid:/# history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
    107 cd
     59 apt-get
     33 mocp
     30 mkisofs
     30 ls
     26 startx
     21 ./autogen.sh
     16 find
     15 cdrecord
     13 date
Sid:/#

[otter]

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     69 ls
     48 aptitude
     47 vi
     42 cd
     34 man
     33 exit
     16 pwd
     16 dmesg
     15 less
     13 mv

[Telemachus]

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47 vi

I'm curious: is that vi really vi? On my system /usr/bin/vi is just a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi which in turn points to /usr/bin/vim.basic. Just wondering if you really prefer vi over vim or just liked to save a keystroke

[youvegotmoxie]

root user

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lulz:/home/mike# history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
     28 ls
     19 cd
     10 make-kpkg
      6 python
      6 nano
      5 make
      5 gdm
      5 exit
      5 aptitude
      4 shutdown
lulz:/home/mike# 

normal user

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mike@lulz:~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
    132 sudo
     97 ls
     60 screen
     34 cd
     27 irssi
     15 man
     11 rm
      8 tar
      8 gedit
      8 ./configure

[stoffepojken]

Laptop regular user:

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     31 su
     21 ssh
     12 uppladdat
     12 disk1
     10 torrenter
     10 disk2
      7 ncmpc
      6 vim
      5 newsbeuter
      4 update-menus

Laptop root:

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    126 aptitude
     24 vim
     17 mount
     15 exit
      6 update-menus
      6 mkdir
      5 shutdown
      5 /etc/init.d/gdm
      4 ndiswrapper
      4 dpkg

[stoffepojken]

Server regular user:

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    143 screen
     51 exit
     35 su
     16 ls
     14 cd
     10 cp
      6 wget
      6 mv
      6 man
      6 cat

Server Root:

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     55 aptitude
     30 exit
     25 ls
     12 vim
     12 rm
     12 nano
      9 cp
      7 ln
      7 dpkg
      7 chown

[bodiless]

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     83 ls
     66 cd
     53 exit
     52 su
     38 man
     15 dpkg
     13 rsync
     13 pdftk
     13 nano
     12 ps

[freek]

fvb@dell:~ > history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
122 sudo
75 nano
36 kill
36 clear
31 conky
19 apt-cache
13 pstree
10 crontab
9 echo
7 startx

[@johan]

HP Compaq nc4400 T5600.

$ User
81 ls
54 cat
45 cd
35 su
28 man
28 grep
19 ps
17 dpkg
15 vim
14 kill

# Root
65 vim
62 ls
57 apt-get
52 cd
17 cat
16 mount
13 /etc/init.d/sdcard
11 /etc/init.d/sdhci
9 cp
7 netstat

[otter]

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47 vi

I'm curious: is that vi really vi? On my system /usr/bin/vi is just a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi which in turn points to /usr/bin/vim.basic. Just wondering if you really prefer vi over vim or just liked to save a keystroke

I used nano a lot until I found vi for smarties
I forgot vim even existed

[Lou]

as user on a fresh install:
149 sudo
109 exit
33 jp
28 sjp
28 apt-cache
27 startx
12 man
11 locate
10 jpico
9 su

[ka3]

I'll bite . . .

User:

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    119 cd
    106 ls
     40 colmake
     40 clear
     13 xmoto
     13 kill
     12 denemo
     10 su
      8 rm
      7 uname

I'm addicted to xmoto, ICYWW.

Root:

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     79 ls
     65 cd
     39 kill
     19 m-a
     16 clear
     14 mount
     14 cp
     14 aptitude
     13 vim
     11 rm

[987687]

I'm addicted to xmoto, ICYWW.

xmoto is a sweet game.

[ka3]

Agreed. I have 1850 deaths on XMoto already, after 58 days.