$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
114 cd
66 ls
35 gst
33 autotest
31 git
20 rake
15 sc
13 less
12 mate
10 rak
In case you couldn’t guess:
alias gst=’git status’
alias sc=’./script/console’
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04.17.08 / 3pm
Seems like your history size is the default small size.
cause I have over 1000 of those “cd” command
Try adding this to your ~/.bash_profile
export HISTSIZE=1000000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
shopt -s histappend
you will have plenty of history to share then….
04.17.08 / 3pm
Nice! I always wondered if you could make the history longer. Thanks for the tip.
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Ben spends all day at work writing Ruby and far too much of his free time doing the same.
He earned his Bachelors and Master degrees in Computer Science from the University of Utah. He is part of the core Cucumber team trying to keep BDD fun. Other than Ruby the areas of software engineering, programming languages, and machine learning usually keep him busy. While on IRC he is known as 'mabes' and can be seen in the #rspec and #cucumber rooms the most often.
In his "real" life he enjoys running and other outdoor activities.
