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Unix History: It is an offensive meme, but I cannot look away

April 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Dion is to blame ;) for the trivia that follows…

The new rage seems to be piping this to your blog:

history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head

It reminds me of history class at school. Always painfully boring, which is such a crying shame, as history itself is fascinating. How school managed to take the subject that could be so enjoyable, and such a tie in to all other subjects, and instead make it incredibly boring is a crying shame.

Drum roll …

150 ls
115 cd
60 vi
29 fortune -ooo
21 ssh
10 maven
10 cd..
9 svn
9 ping
9 find
7 rm

There, I dunnit. Offensive meme, but easiest post. Ever.

Categories: SoftwareDev

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Alex Muntean // Apr 17, 2008 at 4:30 am

    324 svn
    192 ruby
    105 rake
    61 ll
    30 mongrelrails
    26 sudo
    22 rm
    20 cd
    18 w
    t

    16 tail

    Can you tell what I’m into? :)

  • 2 DE // Apr 19, 2008 at 12:34 am

    C:Documents and Settingstest>history | awk `{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i
    ] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
    ‘history’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    Easiest reply. Ever.

  • 3 IM2 | OQP » history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head // May 22, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    […] Michael Mahemoff made me do it! […]

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