How to list most-used commands

Erdal TAŞKESENErdal TAŞKESEN
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If you are a developer, you’re mostly working using the command line. You may even want to find out the most used commands.

fc -l 1 | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a; }' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10

References

  1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
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