Top 12 LINUX Commands

What are your top 12 LINUX commands? I nicked this idea from my mate, Paul. But mine is considerably better because it lists your top 12 most recently used commands where as his only lists a measly 10… so, without further ado here is the command:
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c | sort -rn | head -12

Mine are:-

172 ls

85 vi

84 ps

61 cat

50 tail

39 yum

39 less

32 telnet

29 whereis

27 locate

25 service

18 kill

I also reckon my list is better than Pauls as mine is quite poetic, if you look hard and, basically, his isn’t… lol

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1 Comments

  1. Paul Mellors, July 17, 2007:

    You nicked my idea, cheeky fecker :)

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