Once More Unto the Bleat, Dear Friends
I think it is pretty well known that I am a sheep, and have a natural tendency to follow the crowd.
At home:
[preed@underworld ~]$ uname -a && history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
Linux underworld 2.6.19.7 #14 SMP Mon Nov 26 12:18:50 PST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
3870 mtail1
1110 mutt
965 j2
717 imtail3
472 ps
374 fg
313 mocp
142 screen
139 cd
112 mail4
For comparison’s sake, at work:
preed@preed-desktop:~$ uname -a && history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
Linux preed-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
1043 svn
861 dir6
836 cd
267 more7
229 ssh
221 ls
200 vi
136 grep
134 fg
119 ps
It would seem I pretty much am only using my workstation for reading email and listening to music. At least my work history has some semblance of related productivity tools.
Apparently, I also use a ton of bash aliases.
Huh.
I think I tend to run “mtail” and “ps” as nervous ticks when I’m thinking about something…
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1 mtail is a bash alias to tail -n 12 ~/.fetchmail.log ~/.procmail.log
2 j is a bash alias to jobs
3 imtail is a bash alias to parse-timpslog -d ~/timpslog -a, which gives me a log from the AIM proxy I use
4 Not what you think; mail is aliased to mtail1,5
5 First recursive footnote! Booyah!!
6 dir is a bash alias to ls -laih --color; yah, yah… I know.
7 more is a bash alias to less -X -I
The data here is pretty misleading though, since it only takes the first command in a line under consideration. Complex commands like, oh:
clear; svn st | grep M | awk '{ print $2; }' | xargs -L1 php -l && (echo `svn diff | grep "^[+-][^+-]" | wc -l` lines changed ; echo "===================="; grep XXX: *{,/*,/*/*,/*/*/*}.{php,inc} 2> /dev/null > /tmp/XXX; cat /tmp/XXX; echo `cat /tmp/XXX | wc -l` things left to do)show up only as “clear”.
and most of my commands, according to this little script, are ‘clear’.