what is your 10 common linux commands?

[mysurface]

Recently I wrote a combo of commands that digs your history of command lines, and generate your top ten common command I use recently.

I was thinking since yesterday, hey why don't I post it up at forums and see what is the common commands that Ubuntu users use daily? And here I come.


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

Just copy and paste to your terminal will do. And here is my recent TOP TEN command list


1 99 19.8% cd
2 89 17.8% ls
3 57 11.4% vi
4 24 4.8% apt-get
5 21 4.2% sudo
6 15 3% apt-cache
7 10 2% ssh
8 10 2% man
9 10 2% katapult
10 7 1.4% exit


Yeah, recently I did a lots of software searching through apt-cache and vi is always my fav editor allows me to edit my conf, and katapult, a kde apps that allows me to type my app command and run.

In case you are interested to understand that combo's of commands, you may check out this blog post (http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/332/what-is-your-10-common-linux-commands/).

Have fun :KS

[x0as]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=472090

[PatrickMay16]

Here's mine:

1 219 43.8% sudo
2 71 14.2% cd
3 33 6.6% ls
4 24 4.8% dmesg
5 22 4.4% sensors
6 18 3.6% killall
7 12 2.4% for
8 11 2.2% play
9 10 2% timidity
10 10 2% rm

[Havoc]

Hehe

1 134 26.8% make
2 49 9.8% sudo
3 23 4.6% kill
4 23 4.6% export
5 21 4.2% cd
6 21 4.2% bitbake
7 18 3.6% wine
8 16 3.2% patch
9 8 1.6% latex
10 8 1.6% killall

Developer stuff :)

[FuturePilot]

1 40 35.3982% sudo
2 17 15.0442% apt-cache
3 5 4.42478% gdb
4 5 4.42478% cd
5 4 3.53982% pidof
6 4 3.53982% killall
7 3 2.65487% wget
8 3 2.65487% sh
9 3 2.65487% java
10 2 1.76991% lspci

Low numbers- fresh install

[funrider]

1 181 30.7301% ls
2 138 23.4295% cd
3 20 3.39559% cat
4 19 3.22581% vi
5 15 2.54669% ps
6 15 2.54669% exit
7 13 2.20713% tail
8 11 1.86757% .
9 10 1.69779% l
10 9 1.52801% kopete

[Anonii]

1 67 13.4% mplayer
2 55 11% sudo
3 55 11% ls
4 53 10.6% cd
5 43 8.6% irssi
6 31 6.2% su
7 23 4.6% nano
8 19 3.8% gcc
9 15 3% gmplayer
10 14 2.8% eix

[Kingsley]

1 123 51.4644% sudo
2 26 10.8787% apt-cache
3 17 7.11297% cd
4 9 3.76569% killall
5 7 2.92887% ls
6 4 1.67364% dpkg
7 3 1.25523% tangerine
8 3 1.25523% make
9 3 1.25523% exit
10 3 1.25523% clear

[justsomedude]

copy and paste

That's basically all I use. :lolflag:

err...

1 158 51.1327% sudo
2 50 16.1812% cd
3 14 4.53074% make
4 14 4.53074% compiz
5 10 3.23625% tar
6 6 1.94175% wget
7 6 1.94175% glxgears
8 3 0.970874% gedit
9 2 0.647249% uname
10 2 0.647249% trackerd

[KuriKai]

Looks like I do more browsing in the command line than most people
1 103 20.6% cd
2 97 19.4% sudo
3 25 5% svn
4 23 4.6% wine
5 21 4.2% make
6 14 2.8% winecfg
7 11 2.2% ls
8 9 1.8% javac
9 8 1.6% git
10 8 1.6% cp

[anaconda]

Good idea :)

Not quite what I expected, but here it is:

1 148 29.6% ls
2 111 22.2% cd
3 62 12.4% cp
4 28 5.6% sudo
5 14 2.8% 45
6 12 2.4% exit
7 11 2.2% more
8 11 2.2% chmod
9 8 1.6% convert
10 7 1.4% rm

[snickers295]

1 46 33.0935% sudo
2 14 10.0719% qemu
3 11 7.91367% cd
4 8 5.7554% mount
5 7 5.03597% cfdisk
6 4 2.8777% chmod
7 3 2.15827% gparted
8 2 1.43885% vncviewer
9 2 1.43885% totem
10 2 1.43885% print

[SirBob1701]

1 186 37.2% sudo
2 75 15% ls
3 65 13% cd
4 24 4.8% vi
5 23 4.6% exit
6 17 3.4% locate
7 14 2.8% pstree
8 12 2.4% chmod
9 10 2% clear
10 7 1.4% man

[Rinzwind]

1 97 25.6614% sudo
2 55 14.5503% ls
3 53 14.0212% cd
4 18 4.7619% more
5 14 3.7037% cat
6 9 2.38095% pwd
7 9 2.38095% locate
8 8 2.1164% epsxe
9 6 1.5873% wget
10 6 1.5873% rm

I am the only one using rm hmmm? :+

anaconda what's 45? :D

[svtfmook]

1 194 38.8% sudo
2 94 18.8% cd
3 25 5% make
4 16 3.2% gedit
5 13 2.6% wget
6 9 1.8% bzr
7 8 1.6% gksudo
8 6 1.2% conky
9 6 1.2% chmod
10 5 1% sensors

[Salpiche]

1 53 30.1136% sudo
2 35 19.8864% top
3 30 17.0455% kill
4 24 13.6364% conky
5 4 2.27273% exit
6 3 1.70455% smartctl
7 3 1.70455% q
8 3 1.70455% cd
9 2 1.13636% svn
10 2 1.13636% SUDO

[snickers295]

seems sudo is very popular!

[misfitpierce]

1 160 40.404% sudo
2 64 16.1616% tail
3 33 8.33333% gksu
4 10 2.52525% make
5 8 2.0202% startx
6 7 1.76768% cd
7 6 1.51515% transmission-remote
8 6 1.51515% fglrxinfo
9 6 1.51515% airport-config
10 5 1.26263% wine

[budr]

Wow. Thanks for that one-liner. I've been mucking around the *nix command line for a dozen years and I still learned half a dozen useful things from it. The day is not a total loss.

1 87 17.4% ls
2 53 10.6% cd
3 47 9.4% sudo
4 34 6.8% less
5 33 6.6% vi
6 24 4.8% grep
7 18 3.6% man
8 17 3.4% tail
9 17 3.4% locate
10 15 3% cal
~$

[koleoptero]

Fresh install, few stuff

1 8 18.6047% sudo
2 7 16.2791% ls
3 7 16.2791% cd
4 4 9.30233% gksudo
5 2 4.65116% pon
6 2 4.65116% exit
7 2 4.65116% bash
8 1 2.32558% umount
9 1 2.32558% tar
10 1 2.32558% su

[angkor]

1 104 20.8% ls
2 104 20.8% cd
3 69 13.8% sudo
4 30 6% mplayer
5 28 5.6% apt-cache
6 27 5.4% rm
7 12 2.4% ps
8 9 1.8% dmesg
9 9 1.8% cat
10 8 1.6% htop

[Happy_Man]

1 42 29.5775% cd
2 24 16.9014% sudo
3 22 15.493% ls
4 7 4.92958% aptitude
5 5 3.52113% cp
6 3 2.11268% mv
7 3 2.11268% df
8 3 2.11268% cat
9 3 2.11268% apt-cache
10 2 1.40845% mkdir


Fresh install of Gutsy, so the numbers are still pretty low. ;)

[UltraMathMan]

1 126 25.2% exit
2 118 23.6% ssh
3 68 13.6% sudo
4 42 8.4% sftp
5 34 6.8% ls
6 27 5.4% cd
7 17 3.4% aptitude
8 8 1.6% man
9 4 0.8% vncviewer
10 4 0.8% locate

[fuscia]

1 122 29.2566% sudo
2 38 9.11271% ncmpc
3 29 6.95444% cd
4 24 5.7554% nano
5 20 4.79616% ls
6 19 4.55635% streamripper
7 19 4.55635% apt-cache
8 17 4.07674% mplayer
9 14 3.35731% htop
10 13 3.11751% exit