I saw on Kees blog a history meme that was interesting so I must join in I think.

$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
87 vi
70 ls
50 ssh
50 cd
49 bzr
33 fg
17 ./manage.py
15 sudo
10 iconv
10 exit

I was surprised at how I use vi more than ls or cd. I was also surprised at how often fg shows up in there. :-/ ./manage.py is part of django.

I think that having multiple terminals open at once does crazy things to your history and I sometimes secretly thing that some of my history does not persist. For example, I’m pretty certain I’ve used scp more often than iconv.