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Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

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Post by dagw »

giis wrote: post #44
stkni wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of interesting, might be more interesting to see what the other end of the distribution looked like, i.e. the really esoteric commands that people rarely use. We all might learn something from that!

We have common mistakes list http://www.webminal.org/common_mistakes/ but didn't figure-out something like which is the least-used valid command. Good idea, we will dig deeper into their bash_history :)

Some linux distros (used to?) alias ls -a to la, which would explain why you're seeing it so often.

Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

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Post by dagw »

unhammer wrote: post #47
giis wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have common mistakes list http://www.webminal.org/common_mistakes/ but didn't figure-out something like which is the least-used valid command. Good idea, we will dig deeper into their bash_history :)

I think ".." was "cd .." in dos

Just checked the cmd prompt on Windows 7 and it isn't like that now at any rate. However cd.. (no space) works.

Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

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Post by giis »

dagw wrote: post #51
giis wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have common mistakes list http://www.webminal.org/common_mistakes/ but didn't figure-out something like which is the least-used valid command. Good idea, we will dig deeper into their bash_history :)

Some linux distros (used to?) alias ls -a to la, which would explain why you're seeing it so often.

You are right, quick google search says 'Ubuntu 12.14' has ls,l and la. Will update our page to reflect this.

Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

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Post by dagw »

giis wrote: post #53
dagw wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some linux distros (used to?) alias ls -a to la, which would explain why you're seeing it so often.

You are right, quick google search says 'Ubuntu 12.14' has ls,l and la. Will update our page to reflect this.

Just checked and it's still there at least in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

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Post by adamors »

unhammer wrote: post #47
giis wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have common mistakes list http://www.webminal.org/common_mistakes/ but didn't figure-out something like which is the least-used valid command. Good idea, we will dig deeper into their bash_history :)

I think ".." was "cd .." in dos

.. is "cd .." in fish shell

Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

#56

Post by shubhamjain »

giis wrote: post #44
stkni wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of interesting, might be more interesting to see what the other end of the distribution looked like, i.e. the really esoteric commands that people rarely use. We all might learn something from that!

We have common mistakes list http://www.webminal.org/common_mistakes/ but didn't figure-out something like which is the least-used valid command. Good idea, we will dig deeper into their bash_history :)

You should also analyse commands that were run without 'sudo'. For me, using 'apt-get install' without sudo has been the most frequent mistake I have made. Luckily, 'sudo !!' saves me every time.

Re: “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

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Post by zymhan »

dagw wrote: post #51
giis wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have common mistakes list http://www.webminal.org/common_mistakes/ but didn't figure-out something like which is the least-used valid command. Good idea, we will dig deeper into their bash_history :)

Some linux distros (used to?) alias ls -a to la, which would explain why you're seeing it so often.

And some would also alias "ls -la" to ll. Just never the computer I'm using at the time.
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