Get a list of your top 10 most frequently used terminal commands in Linux

I think the commands I use most often are:

1. Choices
2. cd
3. git
4. ls
5. ssh
6. sudo

A few weeks ago I stumbled across this Reddit thread where a short Bash snippet showed me how to get a list of my most used Terminal commands.

history '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a; }' column

The details aren't super important, but basically, it takes the output of your history commands, summarizes it, and tells you what the top ten commands were, and what percentage of time each command used. You could easily make some modifications to the snippet to get a longer list, or change the formatting slightly. This is from my recently updated laptop.

  1 138 25.0909% sudo
  2 59 10.7273% ls
  3 47 8.54545% cd
  4 20 3.63636% git
  5 19 3.45455% grep
  6 13 2.36364% vi
  7 10 1.81818% lpstat
  8 9 1.63636% find
  9 8 1.45455% ps
 10 8 1.45455% htop

The only one of these that surprised me was lpstat (I've been struggling with printer configuration lately). These numbers aren't huge, and some of the details are hidden behind sudo (most likely a lot of them are DNF updates). Curiously, I ran the same command on my desktop and on several virtual machines that were used for different purposes and got very different results.

On my desktop, I spend a fair amount of time using ssh. Among virtual machines, systemctl and docker both made the list, with vi jumping to the top as I spend a lot of time editing configuration files.

Your top ten probably shared something about you, too. Are you a developer? A super user? Do you use remote systems often? What is your favorite text editor?
If you like, feel free to share your top ten, or the best tools for doing so. Did your list surprise you? Is it the same as you think?

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