What are your top ten command lines?

Publish Date: Jun 20 '19

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Run the following command list to find out!

history | cut -c8- | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

Mine is the following:

Since I used a lot of aliases, here is the expanded version:

git status (alias gst)
git push (alias ggpush='git push origin "$(git_current_branch)"')
git commit (alias gca='git commit -v -a')
ls (list files current directory)
code . (opening visual studio in the current folder)
git pull (alias ggpull='git pull origin "$(git_current_branch)"')
.. (go back previous directoy)
grunt serve (alias eos='cd "$LOCKHART"/eos && git pull origin "$(git_current_branch)"; grunt serve')
git checkout master (alias gco='git checkout')
grunt karma:... (run unit tests)

Comments 35 total

Oscar BastardoJun 20, 2019

312 git status 148 ls 112 git log 90 docker-compose up 79 docker ps 72 yarn test 67 yarn start 58 git diff 54 cd .. 43 yarn dev

I just came to realise I'm a JS developer :')
- Adrian MejiaJun 20, 2019
  
  nice!
Leighton DarkinsJun 20, 2019
1. git status
2. clear - I love me an empty terminal window
3. ls
4. git add .
5. git push
6. git pull
7. git checkout .
8. project - alias to get me straight into my project directory
9. git commit --amend --no-edit - I hate doing this (special thanks to the client that demands all changes exist in a single commit on a branch
10. ../
- Adrian MejiaJun 20, 2019
  
  I use git commit --amend --no-edit too. Mostly for small changes (e.g., missed semicolon) that worth a commit.
  - IfennaJun 21, 2019
    
    I honestly didn't know about --no-edit until now. Thanks for saving me the keystrokes 😂.
    - Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019
      
      There's another one I used when for whatever reason I need to retrigger CI/jenkins without making any change
      
      git commit --allow-empty -m 'trigger'
- Lee JarvisJun 20, 2019
  
  Mine are all very similar to this! Although I don't use clear -- CMD/CTRL+L does the trick
  - Adam HammondJun 21, 2019
    
    Oh my god, I never knew the CTRL+L tip, you've LITERALLY changed my life.

BradJun 20, 2019

167 git status - spam this one
58 ls
53 git add -A
52 git commit
50 git branch
28 clear
25 git log
21 npm start
17 glxgears - sanity checking if gpu acceleration is on, for my chromebook :D
16 git fetch

I guess I hit a lot of git commands haha!

Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019

Interesting, I didn't know about the glxgears

Jesse DavidJun 20, 2019

 423 cd ..
 362 bin/build
 318 npm run start
 225 bin/start
 169 ls
 164 yarn install
 159 bin/test
  99 npm install
  87 yarn run gulp
  87 git push heroku master

I'm a js developer that traverses his file structure often.

Lee JarvisJun 20, 2019

I'm using zsh and this command didn't work well. I found this post which includes something nice! Here's mine:

~% history 1 | cat | 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
     1  300  25.5537%    ag
     2  95   8.09199%    g
     3  61   5.19591%    gl
     4  49   4.17376%    gb
     5  45   3.83305%    ls
     6  43   3.66269%    cm
     7  42   3.57751%    cd
     8  39   3.32198%    cat
     9  28   2.38501%    brew
    10  26   2.21465%    rm

ag is the command for the_silver_searcher -- I guess I search a lot!

jappe999Jun 20, 2019

If you use zsh you can use the command zsh_stats.

Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019

Nice! I didn't know about zsh_stats. It would have saved me some time tinkering with cut and uniq :P

$ zsh_stats                                                                      
     1  828  7.84165%     git
     2  691  6.54418%     gst
     3  533  5.04783%     gco
     4  469  4.44171%     cd
     5  439  4.15759%     ggpush
     6  367  3.47571%     gca
     7  363  3.43783%     grunt
     8  357  3.381%       ls
     9  299  2.83171%     npm
    10  291  2.75594%     make
    11  288  2.72753%     code
    12  248  2.34871%     open
    13  188  1.78047%     node
    14  188  1.78047%     hexo
    15  171  1.61947%     z
    16  156  1.47741%     brew
    17  145  1.37324%     ggpull
    18  141  1.33535%     ..
    19  138  1.30694%     cat
    20  136  1.288%       eos

Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019

Oh, that's weird it didn't work for you. I'm also using zsh. I'm just curious, what was not working with the original command?
- Lee JarvisJun 22, 2019
  
  It just shows a bunch of commands with a count of 1 :-) The zsh_stats thing is very cool!

Blue7wingsJun 21, 2019

never use command in windows 🤣
Max Ong Zong BaoJun 21, 2019
- git status
- git commit -a
- git push
- git add .
- git branch
- git pull
- ls
- mv
- cd
- pwd

RizwanJun 21, 2019

Its clear that I'm slowly turning into JS developer from iOS developer

 714 l
 382 pod install
 331 clear
 328 cd ..
 319 ls
 273 yarn start
 198 bundle exec pod install
 157 code .
 143 yarn test
 107 yarn run jest -u

Vitor Bari BucciantiJun 21, 2019
1. gst 2. gapa 3. ggpush 4. ls 5. exit 6. git diff 7. kubectl get pods 8. clear 9. ggpull 10. ktx
- Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019
  
  Is ktx and alias?
  - Vitor Bari BucciantiJul 1, 2019
    
    "manage kubernetes cluster configs"
    github.com/heptiolabs/ktx

Adam HammondJun 21, 2019

  49 ls
  39 terraform apply
  24 docker logs test-container
  22 terraform plan
  20 git status
  16 git push
  12 ./index.sh 
   9 aws-creds status
   8 aws-creds login
   7 cd ..

Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019

I guess you are in devOps, or at least that's what your commands looks like

IfennaJun 21, 2019

zsh_stats
     1  564  27.6878%    git
     2  178  8.73834%    cd
     3  145  7.11831%    vim
     4  106  5.20373%    sudo
     5  71   3.48552%    ls
     6  68   3.33824%    yay
     7  60   2.94551%    go
     8  56   2.74914%    exit
     9  39   1.91458%    ftm
    10  38   1.86549%    l

yay is my package manager, l is an alias for ls -al and I seem to use vim a lot.

David OjedaJun 21, 2019

I don't use aliases :P
- David OjedaJun 21, 2019
  
  IDE takes care of commands for running/testing app and stuff
  - Adrian MejiaJun 21, 2019
    
    nice, what IDE are you using that runs git commands for you?
Jyotishman SaikiaJun 21, 2019

72 gs
50 clear
34 git add .
22 git push origin develop
20 cd
18 cordova run android
14 git pull origin develop
13 code .
11 git push origin master
8 npm start
Mohammad FazelJun 21, 2019

Ls
..
Code .
Cd d:\
Npm version "1.0.0"
Git status
Git commit --amend --no-edit
Git push
Git pull
Touch index.php
Jonathan KuhlJun 21, 2019
Huh
165 node challenge.js 16 cargo run 13 python3 quadratic2.py 12 make linkedlist 11 ls 11 ./linkedlist 9 rustc hello.rs 9 python3 multiply.py 8 python3 multiply.py 4 -3 6 python3 numberofcalls.py rumford augusta
Not typical at all. The first one is a set of 50 javascript challenges, so that makes sense.

The second, I was learning Rust for a bit.

The linkedlist was me trying to implement a Linked List in C++, and realizing I don't know C++ well enough to do so.

Last week or so I was playng with Rust and a bit of Python, while working through a JavaScript challenge, so I guess it makes sense, but it's not typical.

It should be the five basic git commands (init, status, add, commit, push), shortcuts I've aliased for my most used directories and clear
Matt CurcioJun 22, 2019

The only that stand out from list are htop and R. haha

gits - git status
htop - see ditty below

Oh lord won't you buy me 32 gigs of ram,
My friends all have 16 I must make amends,
Worked hard all my life time, no help from my friends...
Sung to the tune of Janis Joplin's - Mercedes Benz

cd
ls
gitp - git pull
gita - git add all
xed
git remote
git push
R - Can you tell I do Stats alot?? ;))
BootsJul 3, 2019
This is fun!

Also lol they're all git and yarn for me:
168 gits 38 yarn dev 31 yarn 19 gita 18 yarn repl 17 git diff 12 git pull 11 git log 10 gpo 10 git checkout devel
- gits is my alias for git status
- gita is my alias for git add all
- gpo is my alias for pushing to origin
- Adrian MejiaJul 3, 2019
  
  Nice!

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