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16 pointsPStamatiou35 comments

This seems to be a meme going around. run this and paste what you get:

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

It'll be interesting to see what most people spend their time with.

this is what I get for my user:

83 ssh

51 ls

44 ec2-describe-instances

44 cd

40 sudo

20 ec2-run-instances

17 ec2-terminate-instances

15 ping

15 ifconfig

15 ec2-describe-images

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most people seem to use cd and ls very frequently. Very often they are used one after another. This reminds me of a trick I heard in a talk by Damian Conway:

    alias cdd='cd $l; ls'

I can't find the original slides, here is a writeup by cromatic:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2003/07/oscon_2003_day...

I did that with this:

function z () { if [ $# = 0 ]; then ls -lFGh else cd "$*" && ls -lFGh fi }

That way if you don't specify a directory it just does an ls.

Edit: and apparently it took away my line breaks there, but it still makes sense.

I used to have cdl aliased to that, and lost track of it during a long sojourn in Windows. I'm still in the process of building out a really kickass bash again. Thanks for the reminder of that alias!

It seems so obvious, and yet it took me several years before I finally made a cd-ls alias. I made a mkdir-cd alias too.

Tab completion!!

Why the heck not?

  195 vi
  193 python
  163 ls
  100 cd
  54 svn
  37 ssh
  36 ps
  29 paster
  29 kill
  24 ./rollprod

Not surprised at all to see ls so high... most of the times I type it I'm not actually looking for its output, I'm just clearing my mind or trying to remember what I was doing. I think I should alias ls to print out a ToDo list.

annnndd...

  alias ls='cat ~/TODO'

Let's see what this does for productivity :)

Heh... these values are heavily influenced by the Android contest:

    89 svn
    67 ant
    55 ./reload.sh
    53 java
    43 /opt/android-sdk_m5-rc15_linux-x86/tools/adb
    36 ./build.sh
    28 cd
    25 ./script/server
    16 ls
    11 /opt/android-sdk_m5-rc15_linux-x86/tools/emulator

218 ssh

187 git

61 telnet (was troubleshooting random connectivity issues)

57 script/server

45 ls

45 cd (notice the same #'s as ls, should merge it into one command?)

44 firefox (crashes all the time :( )

32 rsync (backup)

23 ./xgospel (the best game ever! :)

23 alsamixer

54 cd

40 dir

33 start

29 c:\python\python.exe

21 c:\tools\php\php.exe

...

just kidding

    126 ls
    58 fink
    41 cd
    34 sudo
    33 exit;
    30 host
    22 which
    19 curl
    15 ssh
    15 python

    67 screen
    59 ping
    54 perl
    49 vi
    46 host
    44 dmesg
    39 killall
    36 ps
    30 ls
    30 ip

88 ss (alias for 'script/server')

81 rake

72 cd

34 git

23 sc (alias for 'script/console')

19 merb

18 sudo

14 ssh

13 nano

13 ls

This is from 1 week of usage on my MacBook Pro:

38 ssh

33 cd

32 ll

21 scp

16 ant

10 ls

7 ping

6 mkdir

5 mv

4 file

and my friend's htpc

117 sudo

85 ls

45 cd

38 exit

21 yes

19 vlc

17 screen

11 ssh

10 dmesg

8 mplayer

109 sudo

48 s

42 cd

34 touch

30 apache (alias for sudo apachectl)

25 cp

24 gem

17 c

16 mate

14 irb

On one machine:

291 nice

93 cvs

17 .

15 pwd

13 emacs

10 cd

9 perl

9 export

7 find

6 cp

114 python

67 cd

65 ls

45 ssh

29 ipython

21 mate

19 man

16 ifconfig

12 sudo

10 svn

94 cd 73 ls 64 sudo 30 nano 21 java 13 gawk 13 echo 11 ps 11 killall 8 clojure

java surprised me.

132 sudo

84 cd

63 ls

33 HandBrakeCLI

29 rsync

10 java

8 ssh

7 mv

7 mkdir

7 javac

134 sudo

55 csc

37 ls

34 cd

27 gcc

20 cp

19 ./guestbook.cgi

17 mzc

16 rm

14 make

106 python

76 ls

67 emacs

63 cd

28 mysql

24 sudo

17 history

10 mv

9 ssh

6 rm

I'm surprised emacs shows up so much.

I feel a hint of castigation in that small comment, and it's been bugging me for the last few days ;-) Yes, I admit it, I don't spend my day in emacs. Too many things don't work quite right inside the emacs shell.

85 cd

59 ls

47 sudo

47 ssh

20 man

15 cat

14 rm

12 ping

11 ps

11 ./configure

81 git

55 ant

52 ls

48 cd

44 clj

37 svn

37 ssh

30 mplayer

29 vim

29 cp

272 git

66 ls

61 cd

26 svn

18 less

10 python

10 cp

8 man

7 vim

3 rm

178 vi

105 ls

66 cd

50 python

11 links

10 su

7 ps

7 cp

6 id

4 top

68 ls 57 cd 31 mplayer 24 make 23 less 21 whois 17 man 17 avail 15 rm 15 diff

107 ls 99 cd 43 python 33 less 22 sudo 20 port 18 make 16 screen 15 ll 13 vi

180 ruby 86 cd 40 git 31 ls 20 vim 20 script/server 16 grep 9 ri 8 ssh 6 scp

b:maurycy:~% history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 1 21:23

:-)

b:maurycy:~% echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh

People still use ls? Why not just tab completion?

on my MacBookPro: 74 ps 47 kill 44 ls 33 cd 27 sudo 18 pwd 16 ping 16 open 12 cp 11 scons

lots of aliases. r is ruby. open is like double clicking something in the mac finder, i quite like it.

128 p4 83 r 47 p4o 27 p4ch 23 rakts 22 curl 19 cap1d 18 ssh 13 script/scrape 12 open

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