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Ryan3

05-16-2016 03:33 PM

What's Your 20 Most Used Commands As normal user and root?

Code:

history | 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 -n20

Code:

User:



    1  115  11.8191%  mplayer

    2  76  7.81089%  cat

    3  64  6.5776%    ffmpeg

    4  54  5.54985%  find

    5  52  5.3443%    bcwipe

    6  42  4.31655%  for

    7  41  4.21377%  cd

    8  32  3.2888%    axel

    9  30  3.08325%  youtube-dl

    10  29  2.98047%  rm

    11  27  2.77492%  nice

    12  25  2.56937%  ps

    13  25  2.56937%  ls

    14  22  2.26105%  rename

    15  20  2.0555%    display

    16  17  1.74717%  echo

    17  15  1.54162%  adb

    18  14  1.43885%  mv

    19  12  1.2333%    vi

    20  12  1.2333%    firefox



Root:



    1  107  10.7%  ls

    2  76  7.6%  exit

    3  52  5.2%  df

    4  50  5%    mount

    5  50  5%    cryptsetup

    6  41  4.1%  cd

    7  32  3.2%  vi

    8  30  3%    umount

    9  28  2.8%  rm

    10  26  2.6%  netstat

    11  25  2.5%  chmod

    12  24  2.4%  freshclam

    13  22  2.2%  fdisk

    14  16  1.6%  youtube-dl

    15  16  1.6%  echo

    16  16  1.6%  cp

    17  15  1.5%  tcpdump

    18  13  1.3%  rkhunter

    19  13  1.3%  find

    20  13  1.3%  bash

I found this command on the net.

Wells

05-16-2016 04:11 PM

Hrm... interesting...

At work, my normal user account looks like this...

Code:

    1  233  23.3%  ls

    2  179  17.9%  cd

    3  63  6.3%  git

    4  54  5.4%  module

    5  46  4.6%  ssh

    6  34  3.4%  rm

    7  24  2.4%  more

    8  22  2.2%  fg

    9  21  2.1%  emacs

    10  18  1.8%  i

    11  15  1.5%  sh

    12  14  1.4%  squeue

    13  12  1.2%  sbatch

    14  12  1.2%  r

    15  11  1.1%  lspci

    16  10  1%    firefox

    17  10  1%    cat

    18  9    0.9%  chmod

    19  8    0.8%  mv

    20  8    0.8%  mkdir

Actually, looking through that list, it isn't all that surprising. The 'i' and 'r' commands are aliases for an ssh and sudo command.

Ryan3

05-16-2016 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wells (Post 5546447)

Actually, looking through that list, it isn't all that surprising. The 'i' and 'r' commands are aliases for an ssh and sudo command.

That's ok too. Aliases and shell scripts count as well.

I have an aliases called connect which connects me to my ssh server.

Myk267

05-16-2016 10:31 PM

Code:

user:

    1  229  9.81569%

    2  95  4.07201%    aptitude

    3  52  2.22889%    show

    4  52  2.22889%    -f

    5  51  2.18603%    apt

    6  42  1.80026%    search

    7  38  1.6288%    -Wall

    8  32  1.37162%    -e

    9  29  1.24303%    install

    10  24  1.02872%    -r

    11  23  0.985855%  apt-get

    12  17  0.728676%  new

    13  12  0.514359%  -v

    14  12  0.514359%  oh

    15  12  0.514359%  -h

    16  12  0.514359%  -bg

    17  11  0.471496%  clone

    18  11  0.471496%  -c

    19  10  0.428633%  vim

    20  10  0.428633%  -s



root:

    1  25  10.1215%  cat

    2  24  9.7166%    aptitude

    3  23  9.31174%  vi

    4  18  7.28745%  vim

    5  18  7.28745%  apt

    6  16  6.47773%  ls

    7  14  5.66802%  systemctl

    8  13  5.26316%  echo

    9  11  4.45344%  tlp

    10  11  4.45344%  cp

    11  7  2.83401%  l

    12  6  2.42915%  mv

    13  5  2.02429%  cd

    14  4  1.61943%  hdparm

    15  4  1.61943%  apt-get

    16  3  1.21457%  exit

    17  3  1.21457%  enable

    18  3  1.21457%  apt-key

    19  3  1.21457%  %

    20  2  0.809717%  wget

Looks like my root spends a lot of time uselessly using cat and can't decide between vi or vim. I've got a lot of faith in him.

What's the empty string from my user account?

Turbocapitalist

05-17-2016 01:07 AM

Interesting idea. The history for this one account does not go back too far, but it is this:

Code:

    1  180  14.1176%    ls

    2  169  13.2549%    cd

    3  82  6.43137%    echo

    4  63  4.94118%    man

    5  52  4.07843%    fg

    6  44  3.45098%    vi

    7  35  2.7451%    find

    8  34  2.66667%    ssh

    9  31  2.43137%    sed

    10  29  2.27451%    less

    11  25  1.96078%    cp

    12  22  1.72549%    echo;

    13  21  1.64706%    chmod

    14  20  1.56863%    rm

    15  20  1.56863%    qemu-system-x86_64

    16  19  1.4902%    eog

    17  17  1.33333%    stat

    18  17  1.33333%    mkdir

    19  15  1.17647%    evince

    20  15  1.17647%    date

hazel

05-17-2016 01:42 AM

As myself:

Code:

  1        303  30.3%  ls

    2        175  17.5%  cd

    3        59  5.9%  cat

    4        57  5.7%  exit

    5        47  4.7%  less

    6        41  4.1%  find

    7        29  2.9%  cdd

    8        25  2.5%  sudo

    9        22  2.2%  man

    10        21  2.1%  mv

    11        19  1.9%  rm

    12        18  1.8%  mount

    13        16  1.6%  dmesg|grep

    14        12  1.2%  grep

    15        9    0.9%  vim

    16        9    0.9%  ps

    17        8    0.8%  umount

    18        7    0.7%  xlinks2

    19        7    0.7%  rmdir

    20        6    0.6%  which

As root:

Code:

  1        96  19.2%  ls

    2        63  12.6%  cd

    3        37  7.4%  vboxmanage

    4        31  6.2%  rm

    5        25  5%    man

    6        20  4%    mount

    7        20  4%    less

    8        18  3.6%  vboxsdl

    9        13  2.6%  exit

    10        13  2.6%  cat

    11        10  2%    aplay

    12        9  1.8%  xl

    13        9  1.8%  umount

    14        9  1.8%  rmdir

    15        9  1.8%  ps

    16        8  1.6%  vim

    17        8  1.6%  systemctl

    18        8  1.6%  locate

    19        7  1.4%  mv

    20        7  1.4%  chown

The vbox stuff is Debian only and I'm not doing it any more. I'd get different results on my other distros.

cnamejj

05-17-2016 02:38 AM

I have an irrational dislike for long pipelines of commands that can be shortened with liberal use of "awk". Yes, I know it's ridiculous when taken to extremes. But I think learning just a little "awk" is well worth it to avoid running 6+ processes in a pipeline, possible with multiple "awk" calls, when 2 might work with a just a little more code added.

So here's a rework of that commandline that's just "history" and one "awk" for your amusement.

Code:

history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;} END { spot=1; for (a in CMD) { apc=CMD[a]/count*100; if(apc>TOP[spot]) { TOP[spot]=apc; DESC[spot]=sprintf("%5d %5.2f%% %s", CMD[a], apc, a); for(ii=20;ii>=1;ii--) if(TOP[ii] < TOP[spot]) spot=ii } } for(ii=1; ii<=20; ii++) { spot=1; for(jj=1; jj<=20; jj++) if(TOP[jj]>TOP[spot]) spot=jj; printf "%2d %s\n", ii, DESC[spot]; TOP[spot]=0 } }'

I'm not saying is the right way to do it, but I do think the original was pretty awful.

And as long as I'm posting, here's what I got on my Ubuntu desktop.

Code:

 1  160 16.00% ls

 2    77  7.70% cd

 3    59  5.90% find

 4    48  4.80% jove

 5    45  4.50% less

 6    38  3.80% ./scan-proc-net-tcp

 7    33  3.30% exec

 8    30  3.00% clear

 9    27  2.70% slogin

10    27  2.70% gconftool-2

11    26  2.60% netstat

12    24  2.40% gnome-terminal

13    19  1.90% cat

14    18  1.80% gsettings

15    18  1.80% ddate

16    17  1.70% man

17    17  1.70% pylint

18    16  1.60% grep

19    14  1.40% service

20    13  1.30% .

And yes, "." a command a use regularly to update environment variables in my shell.

Also, no idea why the original commandline was filtering out anything that started with "./". That seems odd to me. Yes, those are probably local scripts, but it's still interesting IMO.

Habitual

05-17-2016 06:24 AM

Person shows up and asks for your root and user top 10 bash commands?

No way. No how.

Code:

 1        666  6.95253%    nacho

 2        666  6.95253%    nunya

rtmistler

05-17-2016 06:59 AM

It is so bad that my top command is sudo? :D

I cut the " | head -n20" off of that to find out how many commands it requires to fulfill 100% of my commands. Well ... I didn't add it up to validate that it was 100%, but the list ran out to 57 total commands.

Interesting, and "whatever". I figured that ls, cd, cat, vi, tar, and man would be some of my tops. Just didn't think that sudo and echo would also be there.

Glad to see that exit was up there though! Means I properly quit my terminal sessions, heh-heh!

jamison20000e

05-17-2016 07:01 AM

LOL, at home(\media:)

Code:

    1        33  40.2439%  sudo

    2        12  14.6341%  vlc

    3        6  7.31707%  ls

    4        6  7.31707%  cd

    5        2  2.43902%  uname

    6        2  2.43902%  su

    7        2  2.43902%  cal

    8        2  2.43902%  alsamixer

    9        1  1.21951%  The

    10        1  1.21951%  sud

    11        1  1.21951%  Stereophonics

    12        1  1.21951%  randomplay

    13        1  1.21951%  pwd

    14        1  1.21951%  Pink

    15        1  1.21951%  pactl

    16        1  1.21951%  man

    17        1  1.21951%  "less

    18        1  1.21951%  less

    19        1  1.21951%  inxi

    20        1  1.21951%  history

"Pink"? :scratch:

Code:

    1        8  57.1429%  apt-get

    2        2  14.2857%  reboot

    3        1  7.14286%  vi

    4        1  7.14286%  pactl

    5        1  7.14286%  history

    6        1  7.14286%  adduser

And my laptop I will post next...

Michael Uplawski

05-17-2016 07:07 AM

I do not keep a history.

1.) ls
2.) cd
(...)
i.) vi/gvim
(...)

The rest, I do not know.

jamison20000e

05-17-2016 07:12 AM

My laptop 75% of the time is this VM:

Code:

    1        73  27.037%    sudo

    2        40  14.8148%  conky

    3        17  6.2963%    xclip

    4        13  4.81481%  df

    5        12  4.44444%  find

    6        10  3.7037%    vlc

    7        10  3.7037%    top

    8        9  3.33333%  ls

    9        8  2.96296%  su

    10        7  2.59259%  vi

    11        7  2.59259%  man

    12        7  2.59259%  cat

    13        6  2.22222%  cal

    14        5  1.85185%  feh

    15        4  1.48148%  exit

    16        3  1.11111%  yeahconsole

    17        3  1.11111%  stalonetray

    18        3  1.11111%  cd

    19        2  0.740741%  wget

    20        2  0.740741%  kill

Code:

1 1 100% history

and when trying to save battery:

Code:

    1  99  22.8111%  sudo

    2  29  6.68203%  cd

    3  24  5.52995%  ls

    4  23  5.29954%  startx

    5  16  3.68664%  mplayer

    6  15  3.45622%  vi

    7  12  2.76498%  man

    8  12  2.76498%  exit

    9  9  2.07373%  su

    10  9  2.07373%  kill

    11  9  2.07373%  acpi

    12  8  1.84332%  conky

    13  7  1.6129%    wget

    14  7  1.6129%    top

    15  7  1.6129%    ratpoison

    16  7  1.6129%    clear

    17  7  1.6129%    alsamixer

    18  6  1.38249%  randomplay

    19  5  1.15207%  dolphin

    20  5  1.15207%  cal

Code:

    1  6  18.1818%  apt-get

    2  5  15.1515%  alsamixer

    3  4  12.1212%  exit

    4  4  12.1212%  acpi

    5  2  6.06061%  vi

    6  2  6.06061%  man

    7  2  6.06061%  ls

    8  2  6.06061%  cd

    9  1  3.0303%  y

    10  1  3.0303%  volname

    11  1  3.0303%  reboot

    12  1  3.0303%  history

    13  1  3.0303%  aptitude

    14  1  3.0303%  adduser

interesting, we can see what a great typist I am... :D

rtmistler

05-17-2016 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamison20000e (Post 5546676)

"Pink"? :scratch:

Heh-heh! Had a few, but I knew what they were. It's a testament to how long my system has been running? Untrue because I rebooted yesterday as a matter of fact, so that's full of water. Either case, I know I haven't run some build scripts in years, but they showed up and in my top 20.

jamison20000e

05-17-2016 07:22 AM

;)

I was just coming back to post that, home has had the same install for years and the laptop a few months.

Wells

05-17-2016 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual (Post 5546662)

Person shows up and asks for your root and user top 10 bash commands?

No way. No how.

Code:

 1        666  6.95253%    nacho

 2        666  6.95253%    nunya

Meh. I looked at what kind of information was being given out, and it isn't a big deal. cd and ls are of course the big top two commands for just about everyone so far, and since any real information is stripped except for the command itself, self-identifying information is not there. Oooh... you know that I use emacs rather than vi... big whoop.

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