17th April 2025, 1 min read

Most Used Linux Commands

Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2025/04-17-most-used-linux-commands.

Similar to the post My 10 Most Used Linux Commands by Jason Thai, here is a list of the most used commands on the command line in zsh.

  11991 cd
   8214 rsync
   5398 ll
   5206 v
   5193 l
   4254 time
   4123 li
   2490 git
   2432 lh
   2412 rg
   2192 ..
   1862 mv
   1813 grep
   1552 cat
   1483 ssh
   1419 p
   1385 tmux
   1271 find
   1204 man
   1199 scp
   1088 cp
   1032 php
   1008 rm
    956 startx
    891 perl
    869 pacman
    865 b
    796 uptime
    725 pmsh
    722 curl
    711 su
    707 ...
    661 file
    633 a
    615 +
    586 g
    560 tail
    557 r
    504 echo
    445 wc
    443 diff
    427 j
    420 cwebp
    410 nvim
    396 pidof
    393 which
    377 geany
    341 -

Above list was generated like so:

cut -d' ' -f1 .histfile | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | li

A large portion of those commands are in turn aliases or one-line scripts.