Ask HN: Share your top 10 cli commands
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Had to adjust on my zsh shell:
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
1 645 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 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
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% gst
Edit:If anyone would like to have more granular view I wrote this oneliner sometime ago:
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
$ 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
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
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% pacman
This 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 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% ssh
My list:
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% la
I 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 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% curl
1 169 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% emacs 1 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% openstack 1 905 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% nano 1 206 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% ngrok[deleted]
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
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
$ 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