i wonder how many times i've typed the "ls" command

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i wonder how many times i've typed the "ls" command

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@aeva can probably get a good upper bound by measuring (or estimating) number of times in a single day and coming up with some reasonable number of days.

my guess: lots

[chagrins@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva I'd love it if there was a command counter.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Chagrins @aeva

If we ignore pipes, history | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq -c gives a zero-order approximation. Maybe we can ask a developer of more modern shells to implement the feature as a built in? 8-D