707 ls
378 cd
337 stg (stacked git; a program to manage patches on top of git)
286 vim
258 git (git distributed SCM)
221 grep
202 less
200 exit
176 svn (subversion SCM)
164 hg (Mercurial distributed SCM)
151 mutt
148 ssh
103 cvs (CVS SCM)
89 find
83 man
77 cat
67 make
59 diff
53 rm
48 pushd

> awk ‘{a[$1]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ ~/.bash_fullhistory | sort -rn|head -n 32
5809 l #alias for ls -lA — color=auto
3279 sudo
2442 cd
1191 less
1118 cat #a crappier version of `less’
1063 ps
1055 grep
969 fg
802 cvs
731 man
615 dpkg
553 wget
531 apt-cache
528 opfloat #an overly complicated perl script that is a commandline calculator
499 mvi #an alias to mv -i that I install on all my systems, so that I don’t get into the habit of relying on any machine having “mv” aliases to “mv -i”. On my own systems, “mv” gets aliased to something that beeps on the terminal and tells me I’m an idiot. When I log into someone elses machine, I run “mvi”, and it comes back with “bash: mvi: command not found”, and then I redo the command with “mv -i”, carefully.
465 killall
459 slrn #is that where all my day goes?
459 locate
439 for
435 g #escapes the arguments and passes them to a browser to open google
415 ( #Go away, before I replace you with a very small shell script
399 cvscolordiff #I like colors. I like diffing cvs repositories
375 sync
373 pico #I can’t explain this one. Invoking pico more often than my script which connects to a running xemacs process. My only excuse is that I have window manager bindings to connect to xemacs, and I never close buffers, so I just have to C-x b to them.
371 rmi
301 bg
290 l- #My fingers mess up the space and dash in “l -tr” etc all the time, so rather than fixing my fingers, I defined a function “l-” to run ls -lA — color=auto -“$@”
287 .. #aliased to the obvious
285 find
244 df

Since everyone seems to be doing it:

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
189 ./bin/redcar
51 cd
41 gst
29 git
28 irb
23 less
21 ruby
20 gca
19 ls
13 sudo

I guess it’s pretty obvious what I’m spe…

166 sudo
63 cd
62 ls
41 clear
22 rm
10 ssh
9 fglrxinfo
8 tar
7 rsync
7 man

I posted it on my blog, too, with a link. http://matthewhelmke.net/index.php/2008/04/10/49-shell-history

$ history | awk ‘{ print $2 }’ | wf -s | head :-)