[ale] cut

[Keith Hopkins]

David S. Jackson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to come up with a command line that takes the shell's
> history and cuts everything after the first space, uniq -c's it,
> then sorts by which commands appear the most.  The idea is to
> tell you which commands appear most in your history and by how
> much.
> 
> Something like:  history 1000 | cut ?? | uniq -c | sort
> 
> 
> What I'm having trouble with is the cut switch that removes
> everything after the first space.
> 
> I've tried cut -d' ' -f1, but it doesn't work for some reason.
> 
> Any ideas out there?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> 

"cut" just doesn't seems to cut it, so....

history 1000 | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

note: uniq - remove duplicate lines from a SORTED file
you get very different results if you don't sort before the uniq.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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