command line history - me too

I’ve seen this on a couple of blogs recently so I thought I’d give it a go on the VPS this site is hosted on:

steve@decaf:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] " " i}’ | sort -rn | head -10
190 ls
80 cd
24 cp
22 sudo
19 rm
14 svn
12 history
11 tar
10 wget
10 vi

And as root:

172 ls
59 vi
56 cd
22 apt-get
20 less
20 apache2ctl
17 apt-cache
15 cp
10 pwd
10 ps

I’m kinda suprised that ls comes out on top each time ;)

I wonder which commands Matt, Aidan and Philip have been using most?