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by p4bl0 4915 days ago
That's not enough, you need to split lines on "|" and ';' and before that after for's "do" and if's "then".
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dbaupp 4915 days ago
It's not too hard to do (a very basic) implementation of splitting on | and ;, e.g.

  sed 's/ *| */\n/g' ~/.bash_history | cut -f1 -d' ' | ...
(This fails on something like "echo 'a | b'" and doesn't split correctly on |& and || and doesn't split at all on &&.)
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andrewcooke 4915 days ago
sure, and search through your file system to find all scripts written this year, to include those too....

give me a break.

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p4bl0 4915 days ago
Hey calm down, I didn't mean to be agressive sorry if you felt my comment that way.

You can count scripts as commands (I did it in my other comment elsewhere on this page) but the way you do it you will miss a lot. For instance you won't count any "uniq", "sort", … that are almost exclusively used as filter and not in first command, you will also miss a lot of "less" and "grep" for instance.

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