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> 1. grep

> 2. ls

> 3. cat

> 4. head

> 5. awk

> 6. sed

> 7. tail

> 8. chmod

> 9. xargs

> 10. find

Seems like a pretty good list. I wonder if there is anything obvious missing?

  awk '{ print $1 }' "$HISTFILE"|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -15
     4887 cd
     3699 ssh
     2461 man
     1987 ls
     1558 top
     1141 less
      981 su
      905 dc
      807 pwd
      779 while
      750 find
      601 apt-cache
      529 echo
      462 cat
      426 emacs
(The above list has been cleaned from my system-specific commands which would not be generally useful for others.)

Ah, of course. They forgot the most useful command of all, namely man.



I'm not the only person who uses "dc" for throwaway calculations all the time? Woo!

The thing that I find has the biggest useful-to-popularly-known ratio is "tee".


and the moreutils equivalent, sponge




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