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Nikolai Lusan wrote:

| On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Sandra Milne wrote:
| 
| > after using the perl command, here's my official top ten :-)
| It's pretty hard for me to tell what I am using from just the
| .bash_history, I have so many shells open (screen I love you) that'd
| have to kill in order to get an accurate view of what should be in that
| file - it's also not all on one machine or a s one user.

Real Unix people don't have history files anyway :-)

This is why god invented system accounting, in this case via the
lastcomm(1) command:

$ lastcomm gjb | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | 
> grep -v mail | tail +9 | head
  91 sed
  61 awk
  55 ps
  50 grep
  49 head
  32 hostname
  28 id
  27 sort
  21 [
  19 cat

The grep and tail were just to get rid of the hundreds of
entries generated by my procmail recipes (since this is on my
mail reading/sending box).  What's left there is a reflection of
the last 9 hours since the accounting files were rotated.

Normally, there would be plenty of gcc-related items and maybe a
few python invocations -- but I have been playing with my new
laptop the last couple of days rather than doing actual work...

This one is also interesting as it gives a hint of how much goes
on over a 24-hour period:

$ lastcomm -f /var/account/acct.0 | wc -l
   73905

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