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Convert CSV to JSON
Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Preserve colors when piping tree to less

Find files with lines that do not match a pattern
This one would be much faster, as it's only one executed command.

Who has the most Apache connections.
This will tell you who has the most Apache connections by IP (replace IPHERE with the actual IP you wish to check). Or if you wish, remove | grep -c IPHERE for the full list.

Find duplicate UID in /etc/passwd
You can use only awk

Rename files in batch

Duplicating service runlevel configurations from one server to another.
And then to complete the task: Go to target host; $ssh host Turn everything off: $for i in `chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | awk '{print $1}'` ; do chkconfig --level 12345 $i off; done Create duplicate config: $while read line; do chkconfig --level $line on; done < foo

Prettify an XML file
Like `tidy`, `xmllint` can be used to prettify XML files. The --nsclean option is also useful to remove redundant namespaces.

Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Skype conversation logs to IRC-format logs


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