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What commands do you use the most?
I recently discovered the usefulness of find (which makes up its clumsiness, forcing you to type -name to search, with the awesome -exec option). So I'm curious what commands do you find to be the most useful?
history | awk '{print $2}' | grep -v cd | grep -v ls | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
(to look for your top ten commands)
- peterhi 17y agoHere are the commands I use most frequently. However I find lsof and pstree to be the most useful. Even if they are used infrequently. 60 hg 37 ./all.sh 30 vi 27 ssh 27 ruby 20 rm 18 mate 15 curl 10 scp 10 grep
- leecho0 17y agocan you show some examples of how you use them?
- peterhi 17y agoWell hg is the mercurial source control system. The ./all.sh is a script to go over all the projects (there are more than 30 active at this time) and check that they are you to date. vi is an editor, as is mate (cli accesses to TextMate on the Macintosh). I tend to use vi when just editing a single file and TextMate when working on a project. The ssh and scp are from deploying and managing projects to various machines. curl is used for testing that various REST apis are working correctly. I never realised how much I deleted things :)
- lucumo 17y agoI love qalc. It's not really a command, but a command line application. It's a calculator with floating point arithmetic, knowledge of units (even exchange rates if downloaded) and some solving ability. My top 10 commands is/are: 201 ssh 189 svn 90 sudo 84 rm 73 ps 70 qalc 66 mplayer 60 scp 47 less 46 cp Interestingly, if I remove the ls and cd removal, ls comes in at only the fourth spot. (cd comes at the no. 1 spot, unsurprisingly.) P.S. I had to change the $2 in the awk command to $4, since I store dates with the commands.