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zwa

Member

Registered: 2005-12-05

Posts: 119

¿How often my programs are used?

I want to know how many times I have used any program. Because I have installed some applications that I did not end using them really. ¿Is there such a feature that allows me to know the frequency of a program usage? maybe like Windows does but perhaps with more details.

Thanks.

MrCode

Member

Registered: 2010-02-06

Posts: 373

Re: ¿How often my programs are used?

Well, I don't know if there's a way of checking usage frequency of every program (no matter how you started it), but here's a little gem for ranking your 10 (or more, depending on how many lines you filter with head) most frequently used terminal commands:

history | tr '\011' ' ' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nbr | head -n 10

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