Most used Commands?

[RobinVossen]

Hey Im getting curious what is the top 10 most used commands you guys use in linux.

The most used by me are:
1. cd
2. ls
3. emerge
4. nano
5. find
6. cat
7. ifconfig|cowsay
8. rm
9. exit
10. cowsay

Well just enter the following command in you commandline and there you are:

history | awk '{print $2}'|sort |uniq -c |sort -n

Or:

history | awk '{print $2}'|sort |uniq -c |sort -n|cowsay|more

[fingal]

Hi - Not trying to diss your thread but we've had this topic before. All the same, I mostly use:

1. ls -al (sometimes ls -s)
2. find / -name file_name -print
3. htop (thanks to Vergil who suggested this to replace top)
4. grep (increasingly useful for searching through logs)
5. man utility_name (seems too obvious?)
6. cp
7. mv
8. wget (I know it's a utility, but it was a lifesaver recently for helping me to upgrade my OS. It's so very useful)
9. pushd & popd (useful for changing directories without... changing directories!)
10. reboot -n (just recently I've needed to... Had a few DNS issues!)

I've tried using the tracerc and lsof commands recently as lsof can be useful for seeing which files are in use on your system. I mentioned DNS problems: these haunt me and keep me up at night. Maybe I should just... let go of them.

[RobinVossen]

Hi - Not trying to diss your thread but we've had this topic before.

Ah, well damn..

Ive been here for about 2 weeks or less now.
And I didnt saw any stickys with this topic.
Since well Id like to know if there are powerful commands that I dont know yet or hardly.
Well is the old topic still active?

Oh, lets make this the new topic and put a link in the top of the old :P

[Kieren]

Mine are boring :/

1. ls
2. ssh
3. cd
4. rm
5. bash
6. mv
7. more
8. vi
9. telnet
10. tar

[fingal]

Here's the old thread. I also like to know what commands other people are using: it can be useful!

[oz]

For me it's probably:

cp
mv
ls
cd
vim
exit
rm
mkdir
rmdir
shutdown
pacman

...but certainly not in that particular order.

Edit: oops, that's eleven commands. Oh well...

[devils casper]

I dont use CLI. :joking:

I executed first command posted by RobbinVossen.
Output is ( last 10 lines )

      5 cat
      5 mv
      9 htop
     11 man
     11 rm
     11 sudo
     40 vim
     66 ls
     82 cd
    104 exit

[uniquegeek]

*cough*

pkill

Most of the time it's for amarok.

[MikeTbob]

Mine looks like this.
cat
mplayer
nano
revdep-rebuild
rm
df
more
locate
emerge
ls
In that particular order, I recently had a MAJOR malfunction on Gentoo, which took me several days to get it functioning, that's why emerge and revdep are used a lot.

[afericazebra]

mime:
ls
cd
find
grep
ssh
ifconfig
lsof
man
vi
dpkg