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Windows command: list history

Display a full command prompt history for Windows XP:
doskey /history

and a list of most popular command (with a little help from Perl):
C:\>doskey /history | perl -ne "END { map {print ++$i.qq|: $_\n|;} splice(@{[sort {$h{$b}<=>$h{$a}} (keys %h)]},0,5); } m/(.*)/; $h{$1}++;"

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Posted on Thu, 15/07/2010 - 11:30 by Quinn

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