So, after documenting how I save a timestamped log of my bash file, I got curious about what kind of analyses I could pull out of it. (caveat: I only started this logging about a month ago, so there aren’t as many data points as I’d like. However, there is enough to see some interesting […]
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Visualizing Command Line History
13-Mar-11
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Tagged bash, command line, personal infometrics
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