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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Inform the user of the output they can expect.
echo "common commands:"
# The following variables control how the command runs.
shell_binary="" # A place to store the shell binary value
history_file="" # A place to store the history file path
history_lines=1000 # The number of lines of history to search through
command_count=10 # The number of common commands to show
# Check whether you can determine the name of the shell binary
shell_regex="([^/]+$)"
if [[ $SHELL =~ $shell_regex ]]; then
# Depending on the name of the shell binary, set the history filepath
shell_binary=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
if [[ $shell_binary == "bash" ]]; then
history_file=~/.bash_history
elif [[ $shell_binary == "zsh" ]]; then
history_file=~/.zsh_history
fi
fi
# If you are searching through the bash history, you can look at the history file
# to get the most common commands
if [[ $shell_binary == "bash" ]]; then
# Show the most commonly used commands
tail "${history_file}" -n ${history_lines} \
| sort \
| uniq -c \
| sed 's/^ *//' \
| sort -n -r \
| head -n ${command_count}
elif [[ $shell_binary == "zsh" ]]; then
# Z shell shitory lines look like this:
# : 1621135004:0;uname -a
# Run the same command as above, and extract everything _after_ the
# semicolon, which is the command text
tail "${history_file}" -n ${history_lines} \
| cut -d';' -f2 \
| sort \
| uniq -c \
| sed 's/^ *//' \
| sort -n -r \
| head -n ${command_count}
else
# show a warning to the user that you don't know where the history file
# is for their shell
echo "Sorry, I don't know where to find the history file for '${SHELL}'"
fi