I’m always looking to automate things using Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Text Expander, and Python. I was curious which terminal commands I use most often, so I did some experimenting. Basically I wanted to know how many times I’ve executed each unique command ( ssh myserverx or ssh myservery, not just ssh). I started by piping the output of history to  sort (to group), then to  uniq (to count), then back to sort (to sort by the number of occurrences).

Unfortunately, the result contained the same number of lines as the original history output. I figured this was because each line had a unique integer prefix (the line number in the history output). As it turns out, ~/.bash_history (where history gets its records) doesn’t contain line numbers. I simply changed the source and it worked like a charm: