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Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools?

Posted by brendanfalk on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.
The following should work in bash/zsh

history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10

Mine are:

     1 1922  19.1244%     cd
     2 1398  13.9104%     git
     3 1228  12.2189%     fig
     4 590   5.87065%     open
     5 497   4.94527%     echo
     6 309   3.07463%     ls
     7 275   2.73632%     man
     8 183   1.82090%     heroku
     9 175   1.74129%     defaults
    10 175   1.74129%     curl
Source: https://superuser.com/questions/250227/how-do-i-see-what-my-most-used-linux-command-are
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by diogenesjunior on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:48PM (#25318733) 

     1  32  22.695%   ls
     2  23  16.3121%  python3
     3  17  12.0567%  cd
     4  12  8.51064%  clear
     5  9   6.38298%  grep
     6  8   5.67376%  git
     7  7   4.96454%  pip3
     8  6   4.25532%  rm
     9  5   3.5461%   nano
    10  4   2.83688%  unlink
I just got a new PC, so the numbers aren't a good representation of how many times I use each command. I'd say that they're in order though.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by brendanfalk on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:44PM (#25319523)
Cool. I don't think I've ever used the unlink command. Also interesting that `ls` is > `cd`
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by vram22 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:30PM (#25348475)
#!/bin/bash --loose-syntax $ 10 Error: command not found.

'awk|bash|bc|c[au]t|ch{own,grp,mod}|c{ol,mp,omm}|{ls,ll,file,cp,mv,rm,ln}|{cd,popd,pushd,pwd,{mk,rm}dir}|{cron,at,crontab}|diff|d[uf]|{clear|echo|tput}|[ fe]grep|{e{d,macs},vi[ m]}|{[ c]fdisk,fsck,[ u]mount}|{find,locate,whatis, whereis,which}|{more,less,pg}|pr|lp{r,admin}|{tr|sed|sort}|su{ ,do}|{ping,traceroute,netstat,ssh,rcp}|xargs|yes'

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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by kleer001 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:39PM (#25352465) 

    1  270  9.97783%    ls
     2  236  8.72136%    <custom crypto script>
     3  188  6.94752%    cd
     4  158  5.83888%    clear
     5  148  5.46933%    emacs
     6  120  4.43459%    sudo
     7  104  3.84331%    <custom script for writing>
     8  98   3.62158%    ll
     9  70   2.58684%    j
    10  64   2.36511%    <custom crypto script>

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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by aprdm on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:09AM (#25342109) 

     1 1779  17.7918%   ls
     2 1732  17.3217%   git
     3 801   8.0108%    cd
     4 324   3.24032%   docker
     5 315   3.15032%   vim
     6 273   2.73027%   rm
     7 244   2.44024%   curl
     8 243   2.43024%   ll
     9 234   2.34023%   cat
    10 204   2.0402%    docker-compose
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by sachinsmc on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:43PM (#25337212) 

     1 1188  13.5154%    git
     2 786   8.94198%    ls
     3 760   8.64619%    cd
     4 509   5.79067%    npm
     5 425   4.83504%    ssh
     6 410   4.66439%    sudo
     7 392   4.45961%    node
     8 257   2.92378%    docker
     9 249   2.83276%    gst
    10 182   2.07053%    brew
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by frompdx on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:10PM (#25326246) 

     1 2466  23.2861%     kubectl
     2 1318  12.4457%     vi
     3 967   9.13126%     cd
     4 933   8.8102%      ls
     5 486   4.58924%     docker
     6 401   3.78659%     terragrunt
     7 334   3.15392%     git
     8 326   3.07838%     curl
     9 297   2.80453%     janet
    10 263   2.48347%     cat
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by dinkleberg on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:11AM (#25324376) 

     1 540  23.3766%    ls
     2 354  15.3247%    cd
     3 290  12.5541%    kubectl
     4 86   3.72294%    git
     5 63   2.72727%    yarn
     6 63   2.72727%    mkdir
     7 54   2.33766%    ssh
     8 52   2.25108%    rm
     9 47   2.03463%    k9s
    10 45   1.94805%    scrapy
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by thijsvandien on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:30PM (#25320117) 

     1 139  27.8%  rg
     2 68   13.6%  cd
     3 36   7.2%   brew
     4 28   5.6%   pip
     5 27   5.4%   pyenv
     6 24   4.8%   ls
     7 17   3.4%   git
     8 16   3.2%   cat
     9 13   2.6%   ssh
    10 12   2.4%   sudo
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by mod on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:15AM (#25329515)
Do you use rg as a file-finder while coding?
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by thijsvandien on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:59AM (#25329962)
Yes, intensively. The actual file isn't always important; often times I just care about the snippets containing a match, or simply the fact that there is one.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your top 10 most used CLI tools? by Breadmaker on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:42PM (#25318139)
1 270 28,7234% sudo

2 72 7,65957% youtube-dl

3 57 6,06383% sync

4 31 3,29787% apt-get

5 30 3,19149% cd

6 27 2,87234% hdparm

7 26 2,76596% ls

8 23 2,44681% netstat

9 19 2,02128% cat

10 15 1,59574% df

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