Top ten Unix shell commands

23 September 2006
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Continuing with another blog meme, here is the list of top ten Unix shell commands from my MacBook development box

Octant:~ bergie$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -nr |head -n 10
 138 svn
  98 cd
  37 sudo
  35 phing
  34 ls
  20 rm
  19 chmod
  18 vi
  11 php
   8 mv

Midgard development ranks quite high on the list, especially usage of the MidCOM SVN repository, and the Phing build system, used for packaging components.

No idea why the history lists so few runs of them, though. Maybe OS X clears bash history on reboot?

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