Top Ten Commands (redux)

by Aaron

A few years ago I posted a list of the top ten commands I use gleaned by parsing the output of history. Here's the origional list ca. 2008:

aaron@athena ~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
 134 ls
  90 svn
  77 cd
  16 sudo
  15 gvim
  12 rm
  11 script/server
  11 hg
  10 mongrel_rails
   7 slocate

... and here's the new list ca. 2010:

aaron@ares ~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
 198 hg
  59 paver
  41 ls
  36 ./blogc
  33 cd
  26 python
  19 gvim
  14 fab
  12 rm
  12 ./dist/sassey

And the winner is...

The big change is that Mercurial has completely replaced Subversion as my version control system of choice. Not only that, but I actually use hg more than I used to use svn. Part of this is that hg is better/faster/easier/more useful than svn and part of it is that I've really gotten in the habit of using Mercurial for everything (which you might argue is a consequence of that first thing ;-).

I've started using Paver and Fabric and they are both awesome. I've stopped using Rails, but I was only really using it for school (My current "web framework" of choice is CherryPy, it is also awesome).

./blogc which takes the number four sport, is one of the new tools that I use to work on my blog.

Other than that, I still use gvim, rm, ls, and cd. Shocking!