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  • My tools (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361) on 2004.05.12 13:27 (#30726) Homepage Journal

    I wouldn't have ordinarily considered the terminal a tool; to me it's more like air. Gotta have it to work. :)

    I'm kind of surprised to think of what I would list as my most important tools today. If you'd told me this a few years back I never would have guessed it.

    1. Perl (of course)
    2. Cygwin
    3. Cygwin XFree86
    4. ssh
    5. vim (I tried to convert to Emacs in 2002 but got distracted when I was laid off)
    6. CVS (only recently have I finally become an avid CVS user, despite plans to do so for four years
    7. a spreadsheet program; I deliberately cite this generically, even though I am currently using the most popular proprietary spreadsheet package, because to me they are all the same

    Just for fun, I typed:

    history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
    on the system I use most and found the following (excerpted):
    • 8 du
    • 10 rm
    • 14 more
    • 23 perl5.6.1 (I always type the version number because of systems I've been on where I had to use multiple versions; yes, it stinks that I'm using 5.6.1; it's not by choice)
    • 24 su
    • 26 grep
    • 27 sqlplus
    • 38 ls
    • 44 cd (that's not a tool; it's a shell builtin :) )
    • 69 cvs
    • 93 vi

    It was interesting to me, at any rate. vi is vim, of course. I wasn't surprised to see it and cvs come out on top.

    --
    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
    • I was using this...

      cat .bash_history|perl -ne 'm/^[a-z]+/&&$_{$&}++&&$t++}for(sort{$_{$a}$_{$b}}keys%_){$c++;print sprintf"$_\t$_{$_}\t%2.2f%\n",($_{$_}*100/$t)'

      • Which is very, very stupid, now that I look at the code... :-|

        Man... did I really do that? :-| When? :-| How? :-| Why??? :-|
    • Until tool number 6, I can guess what your daily work deals with, but when you cite spreadsheets, I don't have ideas about how you use them. I am always interested in ways to increase productivity and limit efforts: what do you use spreadsheets for?

      • Heh. Mostly for reporting my todo list and status to my boss. :) But also as an output format for my users and stuff like that. To be honest, I don't personally use them for much that could be described as technical.

        Reviewing my tool list, it also doesn't show the large usage of Oracle.

        --
        J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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