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history meme
For an hour or so I managed to forget that I had a lot of work to do. Catching up with my unread posts on my blogroll, I came across Tim Bray's History Meme post, and decided to try it out. So here are my results:
hjs@bblfish:0$ history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10
115 ls
65 cd
60 ant
42 vi
42 less
20 fg
17 cwm
15 svn
14 pwd
9 top
ant is of course the build tool I use. I once laughed at the unintuitiveness of vi, but I later discovered it stands for virus - you just can't stop using it. cwm is the semantic web swiss army knife written in python: incredibly useful for every day semantic web hacking. And svn is the subversion command line client: I love subversion. When coding of course I spend a lot of time in either IntelliJ or NetBeans, depending on the day.
I have a number of other shells open, and the same commands tend to appear in them. Often the unix find command does. So I thought I'd try seeing what I get when I enlarge the list:
hjs@bblfish:0$ history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 20
113 ls
55 vi
54 cd
36 less
36 ant
21 cwm
20 fg
16 pwd
12 svn
9 top
9 find
9 exit
8 ping
7 ssh
7 killall
7 defaults
7 curl
7 bc
6 bzcat
5 fink
Posted at 10:07AM Apr 22, 2008 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in Silly | Comments[1]
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vi, vi ,vi ! that's all u evar thunk about ;-)
Posted by Colm Sean Kennedy on May 07, 2008 at 10:20 AM CEST #