TITLE: Commands I Use
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: February 20, 2023 10:18 AM
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 Catching up on articles in my newsreader and ran across
<a href="https://third-bit.com/2023/01/24/commands-i-use/">
   Commands I Use</a>
 by
<a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson">
   @gvwilson</a>.
 That sounded like fun, and I was game:

<pre>
    $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr &gt; commands.txt
</pre>

 The first four items on my list are essentially the same as Wilson's,
 and there are a lot of other similarities, too.  I don't think this
 is surprising, given how Unix works and how much sense git makes for
 software developers to use.

 <ul>
 <li> <tt>git</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - same caveat as Wilson.
       Next time, I may look at field and flesh this out.  </li>
 <li> <tt>ll</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - my shorthand for <tt>ls -al</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>emacs</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - less of a cheat for me.  I mostly edit
       in <tt>emacs</tt>.  </li>
 <li> <tt>cd</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>mv</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>rmbak</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - my shorthand for <tt>rm *~</tt>,
       a form of Wilson's <tt>clean</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>cpsync</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - my shorthand for copying a file to a folder
       for syncing to my office machine  </li>
 <li> <tt>popd</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>pushd</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - I <tt>pushd</tt> and <tt>popd</tt> a lot...  </li>
 <li> <tt>open</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>dirs</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - ... which means occasionally checking the stack  </li>
 <li> <tt>mvsync</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - similar to <tt>cpsync</tt> but also moves
       the file (often from the desktop to its permanent home)  </li>
 <li> <tt>tgz</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - a 5-line script that bundles the sync folder
       used by <tt>cpsync</tt> and <tt>mvsync</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>cp</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>cls</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>pwd</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>close-journal.py</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - a substantial Python script;
       part of my homegrown family accounting system  </li>
 <li> <tt>rm</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - aliased to ask for confirmation before deleting  </li>
 <li> <tt>cat</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>/bin/rm</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - the built-in command nukes a file with no shame  </li>
 <li> <tt>more</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>xattr</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>python3</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - same caveat as Wilson  </li>
 <li> <tt>gzt</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - an unbundling script  </li>
 <li> <tt>mkdir</tt>  </li>
 <li> <tt>gooffice</tt>
       &nbsp;&nbsp; - my shorthand for <tt>ssh</tt>ing
       into my office machine  </li>
 </ul>

 It's interesting to see that I use <tt>rm</tt> and <tt>/bin/rm</tt>
 in roughly even measure.  I would have guessed that I used the guarded
 command in higher proportion.

 At the bottom of the tally are a few items I don't use often, or
 don't generally launch from the command line:

 <ul>
 <li> <tt>touch</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>racket</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>npm</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>idle3</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>chmod</tt> </li>
 </ul>

 ... and a bunch of typos, including:

 <ul>
 <li> <tt>pops</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>ce</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>nv</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>nl</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>mdir</tt> </li>
 <li> <tt>emaxs, emavs, emacd,</tt> </li>
 </ul> 

That was fun!  Thanks to Greg for the prompt.
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