Command Line History
Here’s a fun little game that Brandon linked to me from Rail Spikes. See what you’ve been running from the command line recently!
matt@Valhalla:~$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
111 ls
71 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
67 cd
28 tar
25 rm
25 latex
22 exit
22 dvipdft
20 vi
16 mv
Incidentally I’m running Firefox from the command line in order to switch user profiles (they’re still there from the old Mozilla days, but switching is a bit of a secret now — run firefox -ProfileManager)
April 17th, 2008 at 09:26
Yeah, the firefox profiles thing isn’t as nice anymore. What I usually do is set up laucher icons with the -no-remote option:
firefox -p profile1 -no-remote
and:
firefox -p profile2 -no-remote
That way I can launch the fox with different profiles without resorting to the command line. It gets a little weird when another application tries to open a site- it usually gets handled by the firefox session I used most recently.
Oh, and here’s mine:
~$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
72 ls
69 sudo
39 cd
33 exit
28 iptables
26 vi
19 xrandr
15 make
14 dmesg
12 f-spot
April 18th, 2008 at 23:49
So many sudos! You are clearly doing very important things, Matt!