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Remove leading zeros in multiple columns with sed
Leading zeros might help correct sorting and they can be removed by sed after sorting

Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

list all hd partitions
Only one command and not dependant on full read access to the devices.

Count accesses per domain
count the times a domain appears on a file which lines are URLs in the form http://domain/resource.

do a full file listing of every file found with locate

Convert mysql database from latin1 to utf8
MySQL: CHARSET from latin1 to utf8

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Uniformly correct filenames in a directory
Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').

Make a playlistfile for mpg321 or other CLI player
A short variant if you have only one directory whit only audio files in it.


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