CLI History Meme

— Paul Annesley, December 2008

I just came across Rob Hudson's Command Line History, which in turn reminded me of Mark Pilgrim's History meme from back in April.

After waiting a fashionably-late eight months, I'll use this as an excuse to find out if I can still publish to my site since hastily patching it up to Django 1.0 three months ago. I suspect that says something about my technology vs. writing priorities.

paul@macbuntupro:~$ uname -a
Linux macbuntupro 2.6.24-21-server #1 SMP Wed Oct 22 00:18:13 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

paul@macbuntupro:~$ cat .bash_history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
    371 git
     32 ruby
     27 cd
     15 ls
     13 mysql
      8 php
      6 less
      5 irb
      4 vi
      4 chmod

Git wins.