Archive for 12th June 2007

My top 10 commands

I thought it was nifty when Jorge Bernal did a My top 10 commands, so here are mine. Funny thing was that Jorge Bernal command did not work for me so I added on a few extra commands to make it work for me.

history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr

Note: wordpress seems to be messing up the single and double quotes, you need to remove them and retype them in

Rank Times Searched Command Comment
10 5 ssh Remote login to my other computers.
9 9 geany Best IDE I have found.
8 9 history If I want to look at recent commands I have used.
7 12 xpdf Good pdf viewer.
6 15 python One of my favorite programing languages.
5 38 svn Subversion, great revision control for all my projects.
4 41 ./a1q3.py An assignment I was working on.
3 59 gnome-open Will open any file just as nautilus would have if you had double clicked the file.
2 127 cd Change directory.
1 150 ls List directory.

What are your top 10 commands?