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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

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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