History meme

farris@bauer:~$ uname -a
Linux bauer 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
farris@bauer:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
93 ls
64 cd
52 sudo
36 8067
23 ssh
20 vi
19 locate
15 history
12 top
11 ping

And root:

root@bauer:/home/farris# history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
100 ls
75 vi
56 cd
25 apt-get
23 locate
20 du
19 df
13 tail
11 ping
11 /etc/init.d/apache2

6 Responses to “History meme”


  1. 1 B Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    What in tarnation does this mean?!

  2. 2 Farris Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    @B: Very little I’m amused to report.

  3. 3 Matt Apr 16th, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Stallman would be disappointed, too much vi…

  4. 4 Bflat1 Apr 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am

    I loved this story, although I did see the ending coming.

  5. 5 Farris Apr 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Bill: I almost marked your comment as spam. Sometimes it’s difficult to differentiate a smartass from a spam bot. :)

  6. 6 Farris Apr 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    @Matt: Stallman is a freakish, scary ape and can lick my fscking tail -100.

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