my shell meme

I’ve seen the shell meme circulating for ages, but never tried it. So here goes,

running:

history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n ",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head

at work:

342 cd
283 ls
143 java
124 grass64
107 history
93 qgis
92 gpsbabel
66 ogr2ogr
52 gdal_translate
47 pidgin


It seems I spend a lot of time looking for things and trying to remember the last command. The rest are the daily apps I use at work while chatting with my boss thousand of islands away.

and, at home:

238 wvdial
49 ls
40 cd
32 gpsbabel
25 elinks
22 java
20 sudo
16 ogr2ogr
8 mogrify
6 identify


I always have problems with my dial-up connection, that’s why. elinks is the only browser that can bear with such snail-pace connection.