Interesting. I was quite surprised by this myself.
# history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' |sort -rn|head
135 svn
134 ls
87 vi
76 postmap
57 cd
45 more
36 ps
35 /etc/init.d/httpd
33 /usr/sbin/postfix
32 grep
This is on my (virtual private) web server, where I've been editing fairly heavily recently.
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You move around a lot less than I do:
96 cd
89 svn
86 python
75 ls
48 hg
26 vim
11 open
10 rm
6 mv
6 grep
Actually that's not quite true: I use screen, so if I'm going to be working in a specific directory for a while I will cd to it and then switch back to that screen when I need it. This is invisible to my history.
This underlines the basic meaninglessness of the statistics, of course, but it's interesting to watch the meme travel!
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