History lesson

DJANGO, FUN, BLOGS, UNIX, MERCURIAL

This has been going around – give people a peek at what commands you run most often. I ran this on my server, where I spend most of my shell time:

> history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
  103   hg
   81   cd
   67   ll
   29   ./manage.py
   23   ab
   21   re-ap
   17   hgup
   14   svn
   13   cat
   12   ls

Notes:

  • Mercurial has pushed my use of Subversion way down.
  • I can’t remember what I was benchmarking with ab, but I’m sure it’s faster now!
  • re-ap is my alias for restarting Apache (re-po restarts Postfix, re-my restarts MySQL, etc.).
  • hgup is a simple shell script that updates the live instance of my site by fetching from the Mercurial repository in the staging instance. It would make a neat Django custom management command, but not one tied to a particular app.

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