Ask HN: Share your top 10 cli commands
We have last done this a few years ago. Below command will output the top 10 commands from your history file:
$ history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10
Here are my results. 1 293 58.6% git 2 30 6% sudo 3 30 6% npm 4 20 4% ls 5 14 2.8% scp 6 13 2.6% cd 7 9 1.8% ssh 8 9 1.8% history 9 8 1.6% rm 10 5 1% pwd
Had to adjust on my zsh shell:
EDIT: trash is is like rm, but moves to system trash. From the reast you see that I mainly work in the JS ecosystem. If I add the second parameter, things get more interesting, and docker pops up:cat ~/.zhistory | cut -d";" -f2 | awk '{CMD[$1]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10 1 1681 15.2472% git 2 964 8.74376% yarn 3 921 8.35374% cat 4 755 6.84807% docker 5 628 5.69615% brew 6 515 4.6712% cd 7 372 3.37415% curl 8 366 3.31973% npm 9 298 2.70295% trash 10 270 2.44898% find
EDIT2: The analysis may be more interesting if you check for piped commands as well, as I missed grep in the first list1 645 5.84928% git checkout 2 324 2.93824% yarn add 3 221 2.00417% brew cask 4 176 1.59608% 5 161 1.46005% find . 6 157 1.42378% yarn upgrade 7 136 1.23334% docker run 8 125 1.13358% curl -s 9 124 1.12451% docker image 10 121 1.09731% yarn remove$ cat ~/.zhistory | grep grep | wc -l 1098 $ cat ~/.zhistory | grep sort | wc -l 316
gst, gd, gco and ga are aliases for git status, diff, checkout and add respectively.1 1668 26.8426% git 2 723 11.635% gst 3 361 5.80946% vim 4 355 5.71291% gd 5 311 5.00483% clear 6 280 4.50595% ls 7 276 4.44158% gco 8 222 3.57258% cd 9 152 2.44609% ga 10 147 2.36563% pip
* (Omitted) It's not a command but environment variable followed by a command. I could probably alias it, but it is pretty unique and so easy to find with ^R in zsh.1 2258 22.5823% git 2 594 5.94059% npm 3 539 5.39054% cd 4 366 3.66037% ls 5 360 3.60036% vim 6 344 3.44034% cat 7 316 3.16032% rm 8 287 2.87029% mix 9 255 2.55026% nr 10 216 2.16022% X_IP=0.0.0.0* 11 213 2.13021% gstEdit:If anyone would like to have more granular view I wrote this oneliner sometime ago:
It gives result like:history | cut -c8- | cut -d' ' -f1-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n# ... All other entries from history 180 vim 207 npm install 212 gst 220 git pull 361 git commit 537 git checkoutFor OSX, the command is:
$ history | awk '{CMD[$5]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10
`a` is an alias for ag, `j` is an alias for `autojump`, `sba` is an alias for `source env/bin/activate`. `gs` is git status, `ga` is git add, `p` is python, `sof` is soundscrape -of, `z` is zappa.1 104 20.8% ls 2 72 14.4% cd 3 49 9.8% pip 4 25 5% a 5 21 4.2% j 6 19 3.8% z 7 19 3.8% vim 8 19 3.8% git 9 19 3.8% cat 10 12 2.4% sba 11 12 2.4% gs 13 8 1.6% ga 14 7 1.4% p 15 5 1% sof
some handy shell functions https://paste.xinu.at/ocnBw/1 1123 11.2311% mpv 2 631 6.31063% sudo 3 386 3.86039% cd 4 265 2.65027% echo 5 260 2.60026% cat 6 215 2.15022% cowerd 7 210 2.10021% pacs 8 173 1.73017% tweet 9 132 1.32013% cowers 10 128 1.28013% pacmanThis is in my macOS box. Pretty vanilla. I'm surprised `ls` didn't make it to the top10, probably due to auto-complete.
1 1855 18.5519% git 2 851 8.51085% cd 3 493 4.93049% rm 4 414 4.14041% brew 5 376 3.76038% find 6 373 3.73037% vi 7 369 3.69037% docker 8 338 3.38034% cat 9 238 2.38024% vim 10 237 2.37024% ag
I've been fiddling with valgrind an unhealthy amount, just because I find it interesting.1 39 7.81563% git 2 35 7.01403% rm 3 33 6.61323% cd 4 28 5.61122% wc 5 28 5.61122% make 6 21 4.20842% valgrind 7 18 3.60721% massif-visualizer 8 16 3.20641% cat 9 13 2.60521% vi 10 12 2.40481% sshMy list:
'up' is an alias for 'cd ..' and 'la' is an alias for 'ls -la'.1 565 14,3437% vim 2 513 13,0236% cd 3 468 11,8812% git 4 280 7,1084% yarn 5 147 3,73191% npm 6 104 2,64026% gulp 7 95 2,41178% up 8 87 2,20868% rm 9 82 2,08175% docker 10 79 2,00559% laI expected `ls`, and `cd` to be top, and they were:
1 34393 18.2057% ls 2 29496 15.6135% cd 3 22794 12.0659% git 4 21305 11.2777% ssh 5 6181 3.27188% make 6 5183 2.74359% less 7 4616 2.44345% cat 8 4379 2.318% vi 9 3474 1.83894% rm 10 2892 1.53086% pingThis doesn't take pipes into account...
1 412 11.4191% sudo 2 301 8.34257% curl 3 197 5.46009% cd 4 182 5.04435% cat 5 163 4.51774% git 6 138 3.82483% ll 7 125 3.46452% man 8 116 3.21508% npm 9 79 2.18958% echo 10 74 2.051% jqThe ks commands are aliases for kubectl to different clusters:
1 147 29.4% git 2 37 7.4% ks 3 35 7% ksdev 4 32 6.4% kprod 5 20 4% kslogs 6 17 3.4% kubectl 7 8 1.6% export 8 6 1.2% ssh 9 6 1.2% python 10 5 1% curl
"." == alias to "cd .."1 796 18.3664% ls 2 718 16.5667% cd 3 373 8.60637% gradle 4 342 7.89109% git 5 231 5.32995% vim 6 182 4.19935% cat 7 130 2.99954% gulp 8 124 2.8611% . 9 99 2.28426% psql 10 94 2.1689% curl1 169 23.4722% cd 2 122 16.9444% ls 3 76 10.5556% wp 4 62 8.61111% vim 5 47 6.52778% ee 6 28 3.88889% ping 7 27 3.75% bash 8 19 2.63889% chmod 9 15 2.08333% unzip 10 15 2.08333% mv
1 1150 11.5012% cd 2 849 8.49085% git 3 749 7.49075% gedit 4 489 4.89049% ls 5 471 4.71047% rm 6 357 3.57036% sudo 7 311 3.11031% ack 8 279 2.79028% cat 9 262 2.62026% find 10 259 2.59026% emacs1 1751 17.5118% cd 2 1542 15.4215% git 3 1273 12.7313% ls 4 501 5.0105% touch 5 330 3.30033% ssh 6 321 3.21032% mkdir 7 244 2.44024% vagrant 8 234 2.34023% cat 9 187 1.87019% subl 10 177 1.77018% openstack1 905 9.05091% yarn 2 852 8.52085% git 3 658 6.58066% ls 4 504 5.0405% sudo 5 394 3.94039% node 6 380 3.80038% cd 7 332 3.32033% npm 8 254 2.54025% rm 9 191 1.91019% vagrant 10 185 1.85019% nanoMine:
1 194 38.8% git 2 88 17.6% curl 3 62 12.4% clear 4 45 9% npm 5 17 3.4% cd 6 10 2% rails 7 10 2% nvm 8 10 2% atom 9 8 1.6% ember 10 7 1.4% vi1 206 41.2% git 2 57 11.4% ls 3 43 8.6% vim 4 40 8% cd 5 31 6.2% open 6 27 5.4% exit 7 13 2.6% grep 8 12 2.4% man 9 10 2% gforth 10 6 1.2% infoMine:
1 55 11% cd 2 53 10,6% swift 3 49 9,8% ssh 4 45 9% ls 5 30 6% git 6 23 4,6% cf 7 19 3,8% vapor 8 19 3,8% say 9 17 3,4% sudo 10 17 3,4% ngrok1 97 19.4% python 2 88 17.6% git 3 35 7% zappa 4 34 6.8% npm 5 28 5.6% ls 6 28 5.6% dig 7 28 5.6% cd 8 26 5.2% pip 9 18 3.6% cat 10 15 3% fabundefined
1 240 19.4647% git
2 138 11.1922% vim
3 121 9.81346% cd
4 94 7.62368% ls
5 50 4.05515% sF
6 43 3.48743% exit
7 40 3.24412% npm
8 35 2.83861% tmux
9 33 2.6764% node
10 32 2.5953% ..
sF is a function to search that formats output similar to sublime's text search
1 21 43.75% sudo 2 8 16.6667% cd 3 5 10.4167% iptables 4 3 6.25% ufw 5 2 4.16667% zabbix_agentd 6 2 4.16667% ls 7 1 2.08333% top 8 1 2.08333% tcpdump 9 1 2.08333% mc 10 1 2.08333% ifconfig