UNIX Shell History File

Looking at history file in unix shell for a user, find 5 most often used commands.

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Try following- it will give you top most used commands along with the count of how many times they have been used:

"history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5".

Gave me following output on my machine:
166 ls
156 cd
53 pwd
21 clear
10 history

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