Ask HN: Share your top 10 linux commands
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1 237 23.7% ls
2 119 11.9% cd
3 91 9.1% vim
4 68 6.8% screen
5 45 4.5% exit
6 40 4% more
7 40 4% grep
8 31 3.1% top
9 25 2.5% ps
10 18 1.8% df
cross compiling for ARM screen:
1 160 26.9815% ls
2 102 17.2007% make
3 79 13.3221% cd
4 51 8.60034% find
5 47 7.9258% vim
6 39 6.57673% more
7 10 1.68634% git
8 9 1.51771% grep
9 4 0.674536% tar
10 4 0.674536% rm
1 46 20.8145% vim
2 31 14.0271% ls
3 21 9.50226% git
4 20 9.04977% supervisor
5 12 5.42986% more
6 6 2.71493% ssh
7 6 2.71493% cd
8 5 2.26244% nano
9 4 1.80995% ps
10 3 1.35747% sudo
1 80 16% cabal
2 64 12.8% nano
3 63 12.6% ls
4 22 4.4% more
5 21 4.2% cd
6 21 4.2% apt-get
7 20 4% supervisor
8 18 3.6% git
9 15 3% ghc
10 12 2.4% findLooks like you use nano for Haskell development and vim for the other stuff why's that? And a minor tip, you can close your tty using ^D (because I saw exit).
Well in the particular case I wasn't coding Haskell; I was fighting cabal :) I needed to install some GUI lib and that took it's sweet time. But there was no coding involved just messing around with build files and such. Not sure why I didn't use vim for that, I use it for coding anyway.
On my MacBook:
Raspberry Pi:
1 110 22% ls
2 99 19.8% cd
3 44 8.8% top
4 39 7.8% vi
5 23 4.6% pwd
6 23 4.6% crashoff
7 16 3.2% rm
8 14 2.8% du
9 12 2.4% crashon
10 11 2.2% ssh
Raspberry Pi:
1 85 26.3158% ls
2 53 16.4087% sudo
3 20 6.19195% pwd
4 20 6.19195% cd
5 19 5.88235% exit
6 17 5.26316% crontab
7 12 3.71517% df
8 11 3.40557% streamripper
9 10 3.09598% ps
10 9 2.78638% date
1 116 39.4558% sudo
2 37 12.585% cd
3 29 9.86395% ls
4 5 1.70068% traceroute
5 5 1.70068% nautilus
6 5 1.70068% ifconfig
7 5 1.70068% chmod
8 4 1.36054% ssh
9 3 1.02041% x64
10 3 1.02041% ping
My results vary pretty dramatically depending on which of my history files I point it at, as expected (I separate them by context).
It seems like this'll be warped by a couple things, though. It only sees the first command in a pipeline (I don't see a good general solution to this...) and loops just see the loop, blocks just see the { or (, etc. It's also going to be missing hidden lines (HISTCONTROL=ignoredups, etc).
Interesting, nonetheless.
It seems like this'll be warped by a couple things, though. It only sees the first command in a pipeline (I don't see a good general solution to this...) and loops just see the loop, blocks just see the { or (, etc. It's also going to be missing hidden lines (HISTCONTROL=ignoredups, etc).
Interesting, nonetheless.
On my work computer (I'm a webdev):
1 101 20.2% vim
2 64 12.8% gs
3 56 11.2% cd
4 49 9.8% git
5 40 8% ls
6 30 6% ga
7 20 4% grep
8 20 4% gcm
9 20 4% brake
10 14 2.8% gpso
1 1743 35.0493% git
2 726 14.5988% ls
3 385 7.74181% cd
4 314 6.3141% rvm
5 307 6.17334% vim
6 197 3.96139% rake
7 98 1.97064% tmux
8 97 1.95053% ..
9 86 1.72934% ag
10 72 1.44782% rspec
1 182 18.2% git
2 151 15.1% ls
3 125 12.5% cd
4 51 5.1% rake
5 46 4.6% cat
6 43 4.3% vi
7 36 3.6% tail
8 33 3.3% casperjs
9 32 3.2% rails
10 29 2.9% tubesio
At work:
1 121 24.2% ls
2 83 16.6% svn
3 40 8% cd
4 38 7.6% cat
5 31 6.2% sudo
6 21 4.2% scp
7 20 4% zip
8 18 3.6% mysql
9 15 3% xrandr
10 14 2.8% sshMostly sysadmin stuff, because that's what I do.
1 177 19.2601% ls
2 113 12.296% vim
3 101 10.9902% cd
4 95 10.3373% ssh
7 25 2.72035% rm
8 18 1.95865% grep
10 13 1.41458% df 1 104 10.4% valac
2 98 9.8% cd
3 84 8.4% fg
4 83 8.3% emacs
5 59 5.9% ls
6 47 4.7% ssh
7 32 3.2% vala
8 31 3.1% cat
9 22 2.2% mkdir
10 22 2.2% ..On dev box :
1 213 21.3% vi
2 172 17.2% git
3 161 16.1% ls
4 135 13.5% cd
5 37 3.7% python
6 36 3.6% screen
7 32 3.2% rm
8 21 2.1% wget
9 18 1.8% mv
10 15 1.5% catOn desktop :
1 124 12.4% ls
2 115 11.5% ssh
3 96 9.6% cd
4 91 9.1% git
5 89 8.9% vi
6 72 7.2% sudo
7 36 3.6% rm
8 24 2.4% vagrant
9 18 1.8% adb
10 17 1.7% cat 1 83 16.6% django-admin.py
2 73 14.6% git
3 56 11.2% fab
4 42 8.4% ls
5 40 8% cd
6 39 7.8% ssh
7 24 4.8% knife
8 16 3.2% python
9 14 2.8% pip
10 13 2.6% pingOn my macbook:
1 90 18% cd
2 86 17.2% rails
3 64 12.8% ls
4 44 8.8% ssh
5 37 7.4% rake
6 34 6.8% ping
7 24 4.8% git
8 21 4.2% dig
9 11 2.2% cat
10 9 1.8% whois 1 107 21.4% php
2 96 19.2% ls
3 72 14.4% cd
4 42 8.4% ssh
5 33 6.6% sudo
6 29 5.8% composer
7 14 2.8% rm
8 12 2.4% exit
9 10 2% git
10 6 1.2% nano 1 162 32.4% ls
2 71 14.2% cd
3 31 6.2% git
4 30 6% sudo
5 19 3.8% rm
6 19 3.8% find
7 17 3.4% mv
8 9 1.8% more
9 9 1.8% go
10 9 1.8% dmesg 1 331 33.1% git
2 170 17% cd
3 76 7.6% exit
4 71 7.1% ll
5 53 5.3% make
6 49 4.9% ls
7 41 4.1% fab
8 32 3.2% find
9 30 3% sudo
10 16 1.6% rm[deleted]
interesting to see 'git' commonly used more like regular bash commands :)
$ 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
Here is my results: