Find your top 10 linux commands in your history | Linux Today

Find your top 10 linux commands in your history

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RK
Rob Kennedy
Mar 9, 2020

Linux is a great thing that it’ll keep a history of the commands you time in the ~/.bash_history file. If you’d like to see the 10 top commands you use, you can run something like the following to see what you type out the most!

Linux is a great thing that it’ll keep a history of the commands you time in the ~/.bash_history file.
RK

Rob Kennedy

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