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noah on 05/06/08


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List commands in history, sorted by usage

 / Published in: Bash
 

URL: http://benstraw.com

Lists the top 10 commands in your history file.

Thanks Ben!

Here's an example session:

May12 10:39:18 book> ~/Documents/n_s/tools/command-history.sh
162 quite
110 svn
107 ruby
61 curl
39 rwget
34 grep
33 cd
21 lwp-request
19 fg
17 ls
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  1. history  | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
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  3. # Full sousveillance version:
  4. history | awk '{a[$2 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head -n+25

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