In response to the current /. poll, Most Useful UNIX Tool: I have the following from my ~/.zhistory at work:

$ for cmd in sed grep cat find telnet init exit ; do echo -n $cmd= ; grep -c "$cmd " ~/.zhistory; done
sed=85
grep=875
cat=762
find=126
telnet=15
init=32
exit=33

Which is interesting to me. I can explain some of the counts:

• I run cat $file | (grep|sed|awk) | ... too often out of a good/bad habit.
• exit is small because I’ve bound x to exit (which itself is a bad habit; I should have just started using Control-D.
• ssh > telnet
• I don’t have root, so init isn’t really used, and my regex isn’t careful enough to eliminate disk_init.
• sed is mega-useful, but is usually the second command in a pipeline. I want to start using perl -pe more.

This is a purely amazing rant on Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” outburst during Obama speech:

This is just true:

It is this week evident that the greatest threat to the nation, is not terrorism, nor the economy, nor H1/N1, nor even bad health care. It is rank, willful stupidity.

When did we come to extol stupidity ahead of information, and rely on voo-doo, superstition, and prejudice ahead of education?