Adrian Mejia

Posted on Jun 20, 2019

What are your top ten command lines?

#discuss #productivity #career

Run the following command list to find out!

history | cut -c8- | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

Mine is the following:

Since I used a lot of aliases, here is the expanded version:

git status (alias gst)
git push (alias ggpush='git push origin "$(git_current_branch)"')
git commit (alias gca='git commit -v -a')
ls (list files current directory)
code . (opening visual studio in the current folder)
git pull (alias ggpull='git pull origin "$(git_current_branch)"')
.. (go back previous directoy)
grunt serve (alias eos='cd "$LOCKHART"/eos && git pull origin "$(git_current_branch)"; grunt serve')
git checkout master (alias gco='git checkout')
grunt karma:... (run unit tests)

Top comments (34)

Leighton Darkins • Jun 20 '19

git status
clear - I love me an empty terminal window
ls
git add .
git push
git pull
git checkout .
project - alias to get me straight into my project directory
git commit --amend --no-edit - I hate doing this (special thanks to the client that demands all changes exist in a single commit on a branch
../

Lee Jarvis • Jun 20 '19

Mine are all very similar to this! Although I don't use clear -- CMD/CTRL+L does the trick

Adam Hammond • Jun 21 '19

Oh my god, I never knew the CTRL+L tip, you've LITERALLY changed my life.

Adrian Mejia • Jun 20 '19

I use git commit --amend --no-edit too. Mostly for small changes (e.g., missed semicolon) that worth a commit.

Ifenna • Jun 21 '19

I honestly didn't know about --no-edit until now. Thanks for saving me the keystrokes 😂.

Adrian Mejia • Jun 21 '19

There's another one I used when for whatever reason I need to retrigger CI/jenkins without making any change

git commit --allow-empty -m 'trigger'

Lee Jarvis • Jun 20 '19

I'm using zsh and this command didn't work well. I found this post which includes something nice! Here's mine:

~% history 1 | cat | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a; }' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10
     1  300  25.5537%    ag
     2  95   8.09199%    g
     3  61   5.19591%    gl
     4  49   4.17376%    gb
     5  45   3.83305%    ls
     6  43   3.66269%    cm
     7  42   3.57751%    cd
     8  39   3.32198%    cat
     9  28   2.38501%    brew
    10  26   2.21465%    rm

ag is the command for the_silver_searcher -- I guess I search a lot!

jappe999 • Jun 20 '19

If you use zsh you can use the command zsh_stats.

Adrian Mejia • Jun 21 '19 • Edited

Nice! I didn't know about zsh_stats. It would have saved me some time tinkering with cut and uniq :P

$ zsh_stats                                                                      
     1  828  7.84165%     git
     2  691  6.54418%     gst
     3  533  5.04783%     gco
     4  469  4.44171%     cd
     5  439  4.15759%     ggpush
     6  367  3.47571%     gca
     7  363  3.43783%     grunt
     8  357  3.381%       ls
     9  299  2.83171%     npm
    10  291  2.75594%     make
    11  288  2.72753%     code
    12  248  2.34871%     open
    13  188  1.78047%     node
    14  188  1.78047%     hexo
    15  171  1.61947%     z
    16  156  1.47741%     brew
    17  145  1.37324%     ggpull
    18  141  1.33535%     ..
    19  138  1.30694%     cat
    20  136  1.288%       eos

Adrian Mejia • Jun 21 '19

Oh, that's weird it didn't work for you. I'm also using zsh. I'm just curious, what was not working with the original command?

Lee Jarvis • Jun 22 '19

It just shows a bunch of commands with a count of 1 :-) The zsh_stats thing is very cool!

Ifenna • Jun 21 '19 • Edited

zsh_stats
     1  564  27.6878%    git
     2  178  8.73834%    cd
     3  145  7.11831%    vim
     4  106  5.20373%    sudo
     5  71   3.48552%    ls
     6  68   3.33824%    yay
     7  60   2.94551%    go
     8  56   2.74914%    exit
     9  39   1.91458%    ftm
    10  38   1.86549%    l

yay is my package manager, l is an alias for ls -al and I seem to use vim a lot.

Brad • Jun 20 '19

167 git status - spam this one
58 ls
53 git add -A
52 git commit
50 git branch
28 clear
25 git log
21 npm start
17 glxgears - sanity checking if gpu acceleration is on, for my chromebook :D
16 git fetch

I guess I hit a lot of git commands haha!

Adrian Mejia • Jun 21 '19

Interesting, I didn't know about the glxgears

Rizwan • Jun 21 '19

Its clear that I'm slowly turning into JS developer from iOS developer

 714 l
 382 pod install
 331 clear
 328 cd ..
 319 ls
 273 yarn start
 198 bundle exec pod install
 157 code .
 143 yarn test
 107 yarn run jest -u

Boots • Jul 3 '19

This is fun!

Also lol they're all git and yarn for me:

 168 gits
  38 yarn dev
  31 yarn
  19 gita
  18 yarn repl
  17 git diff
  12 git pull
  11 git log
  10 gpo
  10 git checkout devel

gits is my alias for git status
gita is my alias for git add all
gpo is my alias for pushing to origin

Adrian Mejia • Jul 3 '19

Nice!

Jonathan Kuhl • Jun 21 '19 • Edited

Huh

 165 node challenge.js
  16 cargo run
  13 python3 quadratic2.py
  12 make linkedlist
  11 ls
  11 ./linkedlist
   9 rustc hello.rs
   9 python3 multiply.py
   8 python3 multiply.py 4 -3
   6 python3 numberofcalls.py rumford augusta

Not typical at all. The first one is a set of 50 javascript challenges, so that makes sense.

The second, I was learning Rust for a bit.

The linkedlist was me trying to implement a Linked List in C++, and realizing I don't know C++ well enough to do so.

Last week or so I was playng with Rust and a bit of Python, while working through a JavaScript challenge, so I guess it makes sense, but it's not typical.

It should be the five basic git commands (init, status, add, commit, push), shortcuts I've aliased for my most used directories and clear

Jesse David • Jun 20 '19

 423 cd ..
 362 bin/build
 318 npm run start
 225 bin/start
 169 ls
 164 yarn install
 159 bin/test
  99 npm install
  87 yarn run gulp
  87 git push heroku master

I'm a js developer that traverses his file structure often.

David Ojeda • Jun 21 '19

I don't use aliases :P

David Ojeda • Jun 21 '19

IDE takes care of commands for running/testing app and stuff

Adrian Mejia • Jun 21 '19

nice, what IDE are you using that runs git commands for you?

Adam Hammond • Jun 21 '19

  49 ls
  39 terraform apply
  24 docker logs test-container
  22 terraform plan
  20 git status
  16 git push
  12 ./index.sh 
   9 aws-creds status
   8 aws-creds login
   7 cd ..

Adrian Mejia • Jun 21 '19

I guess you are in devOps, or at least that's what your commands looks like

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