Frequently Used Linux Commands - A Real World Statistics

This project helped us to share some details about frequently used Linux commands. Here is the results from

10940282

commands from users around the world. Again

ls

command retains its position as

king of commands

. Interestingly, fork bomb attempts losing its charm! Only

164

attempts made since 2017 stats

2019 status

Rank  Count Command

1    1044749 ls
2    354638 clear
3    335139 pwd
4    225533 cd ..
5    171348 ls -l
6    132884 cd
7    111031 ps
8    62022 ls -R
9    61237 dir
10   53333 ll
11   51835 test
12   48671 exit
13   48513 cd -
14   39447 du
15   35341 ls -a
16   27814 cd /
17   27774 ls -la
18   27369 cd ~
19   26622 ls -lrt
20   26193 top
21   24890 date
22   24687 ls -ltr
23   23538 who
24   19242 ls -al
25   19420 :(){ :|:& };:
26   18521 ls 
27   17930 du -xh ~
28   17342 yes > /dev/null &
29   16090 ls -r
30   15997 history
31   15922 whoami
32   12219 su
33   12141 w
34   11649 df -h
35   11635 tree
36   11273 cal
37   11191 help
38   11065 cls
39   10834 bash
40   10539 pstree
41   10295 logout

2017 status

Here is the results from approximately 37,39,188 commands from users around the world. No prizes for guessing the top most command its `ls` . Interesting 11th spot revealed below!

Rank  Count Command
1     347298 ls
2     111681 pwd
3     111168 clear
4      75131 cd ..
5      60145 ls -l
6      51283 test
7      42311 cd
8      36947 ps
9      22347 ls -R
10     19632 cd dir2
11     19256 :(){ :|:& };:
12     18249 dir
13     18045 exit
14     17401 cd -
15     17315 yes > /dev/null &
16     15761 ll
17     14123 ls -a
18     13374 touch file1.txt
19     13015 cd dir3
20     12952 mkdir -v dir1
21     12897 du
22     11667 ls -la
23     10981 cd /
24     10961 cd ~
25     10860 top
Officially webminal survived 19256 fork bomb attempts!
Note to Webminal users: We hope its not privacy issue, we are just sharing some insights on Linux command line users. We hope it will be helpful for you and rest of the community.Thanks!
Last update: May-2019