most popular unix command? ls.

let’s set the frame: 745pm, friday evening. most of the guys at work are still around. we’re largely unix dorks, and we’re marveling at the usefulness of being able to suspend and resume commands at the shell prompt. rather than simply saying “i do that a lot”, we wanted to see exactly how often we use this most marvelous of commands.

so visnu and i both datamined our bash command history (history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n), which told us more than how often i use bg. it told me that i type ls a lot.

here’s the frequency breakdown of my top 10 commands.

i should compare this to my command usage on my laptop (which i use for work, and for non-work) to see how things differ. i’ve enriched your life with this post, right? (right.)