This works for me in zsh on OSX history \ | sed "s/^[0-9 ]//" \ | perl -pe 's/ \| */\n/g' \ | gawk '{counts[$1] += 1} END { for (x in counts) { print counts[x]

This works for me in zsh on OSX history \ | sed "s/^[0-9 ]//" \ | perl -pe 's/ \| */\n/g' \ | gawk '{counts[$1] += 1} END { for (x in counts) { print counts[x],x}}' OFS="\t" \ | column -t \ | sort -k 1,1nr \ | head -100 Ok not sure how to format this on HN https://gist.github.com/nyxwulf/5608955#file-gistfile1-sh https://gist.github.com/nyxwulf/5608955#file-gistfile1-sh