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philip:~ $ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
85 exit
80 make
71 jhbuild
45 svn
23 sudo
20 grep
20 bzr
18 cd
17 ./src/diary
17 ./mtkbabel

The large number of calls to mtkbabel are because I was trying to get that to grab logged data off my GPS, somewhat unsuccessfully.

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By Philip Withnall – April 10, 2008

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  1. mg says

    So, you are a quitter?

    April 10, 2008, 4:26 pm
    • Philip Withnall says

      That would appear to be the case. Either that or I've got a terminal case of not being able to find the close button. ;)

      April 10, 2008, 4:30 pm
  2. Jeff Schroeder says

    If you are using a bourne compatible shell like bash, never type the exit command.

    Instead, hit CTRL d and it will exit for you.

    April 10, 2008, 5:12 pm

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Buxton and GPS logging — drboblog linked to this post on April 17, 2008

    [...] the hike, I had my GPS logger turned on, and collected rather a nice log for the round trip. As I alluded to previously, however, I can’t find a way to extract the data from the logger on Linux. Since mtkbabel [...]

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