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	seninha Offline \| 14-10-2021, 11:10 PM \| #1

After reading this post on z3bra's phlog, I got curious to see what are my top 10 commands.

Quote:Now what are YOUR top 10 commands ?
-- z3bra

On OpenBSD ksh, the history builtin only lists the last 10 commands on history, to list all commands, you need to run this:

Code:
history 1

(history arguments are [first [last]]).

So, this is the command I needed to run:

Code:
history 1 | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

My $HISTSIZE is 1000, so my sample is not that big as z3bra's (whose $HISTORY is ten times bigger).

Here's my top 10:

1. vim: I expected that.
2. make: I use makefiles to build programs and documents, move my dotfiles to their proper places, etc.
3. cd
4. d: This is a shell function wrapper around tree(1) (actually colortree(1), a colored version of tree). Yes, I use tree(1), and not ls(1), to list the contents of a directory...
5. agenda: That's a shell script that shows a calendar for the current month, the events for the week and the tasks I need to do. Very handy. For events it calls calendar(1), for the tasks it calls todo(1). Both programs are part of my orgutils. This script reads the agenda and todo files in all directories of '~/proj/' (that is, in every project of mine), adds a prefix to each event and task corresponding to the project name, and pipes them to agenda(1) and todo(1).
6. git.
7. man.
8. xopen: That's my opener script. If I want to open a image with sxiv or a document with zathura, I just call xopen on them.
9. ssh.
10. fm: That's actually an alias for lf, the file manager, with some options.

	z3bra Offline \| 15-10-2021, 02:26 AM \| #2

Holy cow that post was 1 year ago already ! Good retrospective, given that your top command is vim, I'd suggest aliasing it 😉
That's funny to see you use tree rather than ls. isn't it too verbose when you got a lot of subdirectories ? do you pipe it to less then ?

	tuxifreund Offline \| 15-10-2021, 02:52 AM \| #3

I’ve read z3bra’s phlog post a couple of weeks ago but thanks for opening this thread!

So, here’s my top 10:

1. git - I didn’t expected to see git before vim, but I really use git often and as my vim is opened longer and I just open a new buffer there.
2. vim - Place 2 is well, too.
3. sudo - mostly used to run pacman as root to install packages
4. l - alias of
Code:
ls
, which itself is an alias of
Code:
ls --color=auto
5. mutt - Do I really use mutt that much?
6. tmux - Didn’t thaught seeing this on place 6.
7. python − Most of my programs are written in python, so this is the command I start them.
8. toot - my Mastodon client
9. ssh - I use this to administrate my server and to ssh to it as there is running my WeeChat instance
10. rm - Nothing to say here.

	ols Offline \| 15-10-2021, 06:36 AM \| #4

I wrote a follow up log to z3bra, my top ten are:

Code:
$ history | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

   10442 vim

   8521 k

   5755 git

   5644 cd

   5091 ls

   4155 ssh

   3560 cat

   2251 curl

   1406 make

   1385 pscli

	dionys Offline \| 15-10-2021, 08:13 AM \| #5

Top Ten:

sudo - nearly a third of the history
vim - main editor, also used to view files when I want highlighting or folding
apt-cache - searches for packages, or checking dependencies
ls - alias that adds '--color=auto'
lp - lots of print jobs with custom parameters
cd - lots of these from going up or down one level
git - breakdown: log, status, pull, clone, config, remote, init, describe
echo - testing regex makes this pretty high
cat - viewing file contents
mv - wrangling third-party code in /opt/ that I rebuild when there's an update

sudo breakdown:
* apt-get - installing/updating/cleaning up packages
* vim - editing system files
* mount - mucking around with university cifs shares
* systemctl - stuck with systemd for now, for fear I'd break commercial software
* mkdir - reorganizing installed scripts / libs
* chown - cleaning up permissions
* mv - reorganizing
* chmod - cleaning up permissions
* ufw - opening ports
* virsh - starting/configuring vm's

Here's a hack for the last bit:

Code:
history|grep "^[^ ]*[ ]\bsudo\b"|awk '{print $3}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -n 10

	seninha Offline \| 15-10-2021, 08:39 AM \| #6

(15-10-2021, 02:26 AM)z3bra Wrote: That's funny to see you use tree rather than ls. isn't it too verbose when you got a lot of subdirectories ? do you pipe it to less then ?

The function I wrote defaults to depth 1 (no subdirectories), but I can call it with the option -2 to list contents of subdirectories, -3 to list content of subdirectories up to depth 3, etc. Or -0 to recursively list at infinite depth. So there's no need to pipe to less, since the default output is not recursive.

The function also has find(1) functionalities. If I give it an argument, it looks for a file named as the argument in the filesystem up to the depth I specify.

The function also lists in the long format, so I get the size of the files and their permissions.

ls -Rl and find -iname in a single command!

	freem Offline \| 15-10-2021, 01:07 PM \| #7

Code:
% history 1 | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

   1407 git

    662 ls

    530 cd

    340 vim

    279 make

    144 rm

    131 grep

    107 find

     82 man

     72 ps

But that's very likely wrong, because I use lot of terminals, and histories does not merge well. I'm not surprised with the high top though, git being such a pain in the ass to use, you have to use it a lot before commiting something. ls and cd... well, I should alias them to something which does both, or even better, stop using shell directly, because shells are so not convenient to use interactively... that's still the kind of stuff I summon a lot, though. Then goes vim and make, not surprising as coding is one of my major occupations.

I'm surprised to see rm that high, before grep and find, I would have thought I use those more often... and then yes, I read lot of man pages, which includes almost each time I need a `test` or a decent `find`. As for ps, yeah, I'm constantly hunting stuff which wastes my computer's resources. I'm a bit surprised to not see pstree or pree in there, though.

	humky Offline \| 19-10-2021, 07:59 PM \| #8

Code:
cd

vim

cat

ls

mix

touch

rm

sudo

mv

loc

Sample size is 88k, mix - alsamixer, loc - online+vpn checker
cd is killing me, I need to install zsh and do a/b/c and adopt jump program.

	venam Offline \| 20-10-2021, 05:48 AM \| #9

My $HISTSIZE is 100k so the sample is quite big.
Here's the unsurprising result I get:

Code:
4685 vim

   3931 cd

   2969 mv

   2868 rm

   2342 sudo

   1948 mplayer

   1651 git

   1332 man

   1036 cp

   1003 cat

	z3bra Offline \| 20-10-2021, 02:39 PM \| #10

Why the hell do you guys use rm(1) so much ?

	freem Offline \| 22-10-2021, 11:52 AM \| #11

For me, the 2 main reasons I can see are:

1) removal of screenshots, that I should likely just put in /tmp instead (yeah, I *should* do that, and other adjustments, too)
2) removal of garbage programs leave behind, even in /tmp (yeah, I *should* find a way to remove /tmp stuff after some some duration...)
3) removal of cmake's or other toolis like this artifacts when stuff break
4) removal of temp files I write, often in my $HOME

Other than that... I don't know, it surprises me too.
Globally, I think my workflow is pretty inefficient, tbh.

	humky Offline \| 22-10-2021, 03:42 PM \| #12

I rm: directories, temp files, scripts, configs, movies I just watched, archives after extraction etc.
Mostly just files, all sorts of files. It's probably depends on workflow, if it's git-centric or not.

	z3bra Offline \| 25-10-2021, 05:47 AM \| #13

You guys should mount your download directory as TMPFS 😉
This way everything I download goes to ~/tmp and is wiped as I reboot. So when I download archives, I extract them right in ~/tmp, and only move files I need in there, leaving the archive in ~/tmp knowing it'll disappear on next reboot.

	humky Offline \| 25-10-2021, 10:48 AM \| #14

My downloads folder is more of a 'to sort' folder, I know most of things just decaying in there, but I will get to it one day.

	VMS Offline \| 28-02-2022, 11:48 AM \| #15

I prefer not to keep a static history file, as I may type sensitive information on the terminal; instead, I like to have per-session history:

Code:
    if [ -d ~/.history ]; then

      HISTFILE=~/.history/hist.$(tty | sed 's;.*/;;')

          trap 'rm -f $HISTFILE' EXIT

    else

      HISTFILE=~/.history

    fi

	venam Offline \| 01-03-2022, 06:04 AM \| #16

(28-02-2022, 11:48 AM)DECnet Wrote: I like to have per-session history

What's your process to search in the history file? Do you purge old files also?

For many the histfile is a huge source of knowledge, so they increase it's size as much as possible (including me).

	VMS Offline \| 01-03-2022, 02:50 PM \| #17

(01-03-2022, 06:04 AM)venam Wrote: What's your process to search in the history file?

I use a function like:

Code:
# show history

        h() { 

                fc -l 1 | sort | uniq; 

        }

Quote:Do you purge old files also?

Well, if you look at the HISTFILE settings I posted above, each login shell has its temporary history, which is purged upon exiting. As I have rxvt set to spawn a login shell by default, each terminal emulator under X has its own temporary history.

Quote:For many the histfile is a huge source of knowledge, so they increase it's size as much as possible (including me).

I won't deny understanding this perfectly ;). Personally however, I've become accustomed to save useful commands in functions, aliases or ~/.bin scripts. Not having a history to rely on forces me to actually look carefully at the commands I find online (e.g., the typical 'awk' magic one may find it hard to figure themselves), so as to remember them the next time.

	jkl Offline \| 05-03-2022, 10:27 AM \| #18

Just in case anyone wonders, this command works on macOS (with the tcsh):

Code:
% history | awk '{print substr($0,index($0,$3))}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

(I won't post my results here - there are personal data in them.)

--
<mort> choosing a terrible license just to be spiteful towards others is possibly the most tux0r thing I've ever seen

	Hatbox Offline \| 05-03-2022, 01:08 PM \| #19

I use a lot of programs from Plan9port, including rc as my shell. rc has no history file support.

Instead of relying on my shell to create my history, I use my text editor, acme. Acme has this neat feature where you can spawn a shell within an acme window, which means that it's essentially a terminal inside of a plaintext file. At any point it can be edited or saved. So that instead of having a history file, I have a history directory.

Whenever I do something somewhat complex or I figure out the perfect awk script to preform some function, I save all the relevant commands with their output to a file in my history directory. For example, I have a file for generating new git repos for stagit on my server. I find it a much better reference than a simple history file, because not only do I get the command(s) that worked, I also get why they worked, and why another command didn't. I can even add notes while I'm executing the commands, or after I save the file. It gives me a better understanding of my command history. I also don't have to sift through a million 'cd' or 'ls' commands.

If I had a proper history file, my top ten would probably be some combination of p (alias for plumb), ls, cd, git, man, rm, B, mv, Sel (used for looking through my music library in acme), and ssh.

	yuno Offline \| 23-10-2024, 09:31 PM \| #20

1. vim
2. cd
3 ls (cd and ls being high up makes sense, I don't use a file manager)
4 sudo (presumably from using pacman)
5 make
6 neocities (for pushing to my blog, surprised it's this high up)
7 rm (guess i make a lot of mistakes lol)
8 n (alias for newsboat)
9 iamb (matrix client)
10 ssh (hanging out on pubnixes)

	josuah Offline \| 24-10-2024, 06:27 AM \| #21

I think I got polluted by my own ecosystem and do not have a sane workflow like Yuno but....

I rarely do "ls": I use tab to show the list of files, and disable bash specific completion (so that it shows the files even when it expects only directories).

I rarely do "cd": I run most things from some project directory, and I have "cd ~/zephyrproject/zephyr" in ~/.bashrc for whichever project I work on.

1. "xrun" - (which I bound to a keybinding: a script to open a new https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ terminal, with an initial command that spawn at every new tab, or if a tabbed window is focused, spawn the command as a tab *inside* the focused window)

2. "$clientname" - (which is an alias to something like "xrun sudo -s -u $clientname" to run a new session in /home/$clientname where every time I spawn a new tab, it's under that user.

3. "root" - alias to "xrun sudo -s" which I call from dmenu to run a temporary terminal tab as root within some other "tabbed" session (i.e. modify /etc/profile where all these aliases are)

4. "o" - open the file on a new local tab, even if it is over SSH: alias to xopen (my xdg-open script with a giant "case $1 in (https://...) ... ;; esac"... or if running from ssh, send "ssh://$HOST/$filename" to "/tmp/$user@host.sock" which is telling my local host to call xdg-open on that, which recognizes "ssh://" and spawns "xrun ssh $HOST $EDITOR $filename"

5. "xssh" - same as ssh, but setups the socket forwarding like used above. Some ad-hoc unixargs.c combines unix socket and xargs, to spawn the xdg-open on every `\n` lines received from the "o" alias (source below)

6. "west" - the command to compile and run unit tests on Zephyr

7. "make" - various projects which uses it

8. "www" - at least once per day to start the big bad browser

9. "irc" - ssh to $HOST and calls "abduco -a irssi" to check out messages

10. "rm -rf" - muahahahahahahaha (delete ./out-twister/ directory or ./build/ that keep spawning on builds)

Code:
#include <stdio.h>

#include <errno.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <unistd.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <stdbool.h>

#include <sys/socket.h>

#include <sys/un.h>

#define LINE_SIZE 1024

int recv_first_line(int fd, char *line_buf, size_t line_sz)

{

    char *buf = line_buf;

    size_t sz = line_sz;

    for (ssize_t n; sz > 0 && (n = recv(fd, buf, sz, MSG_WAITALL)) != 0; sz -= n, buf += n) {

        if (n < 0) {

            return -errno;

        }

    }

    line_buf[line_sz - 1] = '\0';

    line_buf[strcspn(line_buf, "\r\n")] = '\0';

    return 0;

}

int handle_connection(int fd, char **argv, char **placeholder)

{

    char line[LINE_SIZE] = {0};

    int err;

    err = shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR);

    if (err) {

        perror("shutdown");

        return -errno;

    }

    err = recv_first_line(fd, line, sizeof(line));

    if (err) {

        perror("recv_first_line");

        return err;

    }

    *placeholder = line;

    printf("unixargs:");

    for (size_t i = 0; argv[i] != NULL; i++) {

        printf(" %s", argv[i]);

    }

    printf("\n");

    switch (fork()) {

    case -1:

        perror("fork");

        return -errno;

    case 0:

        execvp(argv[0], argv);

        perror(argv[0]);

        return -errno;

    }

    return 0;

}

int xserver(char *path, char **argv, char **placeholder)

{

    struct sockaddr_un sun = { .sun_family = AF_UNIX };

    int sockfd, netfd, err;

    sockfd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    if (sockfd < 0) {

        perror("socket(AF_UNIX)");

        return -errno;

    }

    strncpy(sun.sun_path, path, sizeof(sun.sun_path) - 1);

    err = bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sun, sizeof(sun));

    if (err) {

        perror(path);

        return -errno;

    }

    err = listen(sockfd, 10);

    if (err) {

        perror(path);

        return -errno;

    }

    while (true) {

        netfd = accept(sockfd, NULL, NULL);

        if (netfd < 0) {

            perror(path);

            continue;

        }

        handle_connection(netfd, argv, placeholder);

    }

    return 0;

}

void usage(char *argv0)

{

    fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s ./path.sock cmd [args...] {} [args...]\n", argv0);

    exit(1);

}

int main(int argc, char **argv)

{

    char **placeholder = NULL;

    int err;

    if (argc < 4) {

        usage(argv[0]);

    }

    for (int i = 3; i < argc; i++) {

        if (strcmp(argv[i], "{}") == 0) {

            placeholder = &argv[i];

            break;

        }

    }

    if (placeholder == NULL) {

        usage(argv[0]);

    }

    err = xserver(argv[1], argv + 2, placeholder);

    if (err) {

        fprintf(stderr, "failed to run xserver, exiting\n");

        return -err;

    }

    return 0;

}

P.S.: I know I can use tmux to skip all of that messy business, but I'm trapped in my own habits, please come save me! (;_;) :P

	josuah Offline \| 24-10-2024, 06:34 AM \| #22

I think I under-estimated the git commands in that. Glad to be reminded to actually check the data:

Code:
git --all --decorate --oneline --graph # aliased to git dog

Very glad to learn about https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb !

	maksim Offline \| 08-11-2024, 09:30 AM \| #23

My current install is less than a month old at this point, but I've already accumulated quite a lot of shell history:

3028 cd
2204 ls
986 nvim - the sole text editor I use
399 rb - an alias to nixos-rebuild
241 c - an alias to clear
112 doas
108 nivm - didn't expect this to be so high in the list, glad I aliased it to "nvim" :D
107 mpv
103 x - alias to startx
101 rm

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