A simple way to check your most frequently used Linux commands

top_bash_commands.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Reads from specified shell history file.
HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
# Enable history. Disabled by default in a non-interactive shell (e.g. scripts like this).
# Uses awk to get just the command name from shell history, sorts list by command name, filters out non-unique data, sorts by frequency, grabs top 5.
set -o history
history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5

top_fish_commands.sh

#!/bin/fish
# Uses awk to get just the command name from shell history, sorts list by command name, filters out non-unique data, sorts by frequency, grabs top 5.
history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5