UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Let's get some feedback about the top ten ute's you guys use in writing your scripts - I mean yeah it depends on the job and what you're trying to accomplish, but there ARE those commands (sed, grep, awk, cut, etc.) that most will use time and again...

...so, what do you use?

All of what you mentioned, but the most versatile is perhaps sed.

bakunin

Yups the ones you had listed are the most used ones in correct order too :P
In addition I also perl (may be it doesnt fits here but I use that too)

Regards

Well, if you really want to know, write up an awk script that will count the number of instances of certain keywords (such as ps, echo, sed) is a user's scripts. Then you can distribute this script and let people run it to collect stats on how often they *really* use certian commands in their scripts.

My guess would be that test/[ and if are the most popular commands (though shell builtins), then echo. Then grep, ./source, ps, sed, awk, etc.. The cool thing here is that people will probably be surporised when they ofund out what they *really* used most often.