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%s across multiple files with Vim
src: http://www.ibrahim-ahmed.com/2008/01/find-and-replace-in-multiple-files-in.html

Copy structure
Copies a dir structure without the files in it.

Sort installed rpms in alphabetic order with their size.

Get your outgoing IP address
Get your external ip adress thanks to http://www.icanhazip.com

Update twitter via curl
Doesn't require password (asks for it instead)

Prepare B&W scans for clean looking, searchable PDF
Scan pages in, clean them up in an image editor, save to individual files. Use this command to convert each page to PDF. Combine in Acrobat Professional, and use the built-in OCR with the "Searchable Image (Exact)" option. Gives excellent image quality and file size (avoids awful JPEG image recompression that Acrobat and other OCR systems tend to do.)

Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.
Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.
I think this is less resource consuming than the previous examples

Fork bomb (don't actually execute)
Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb More info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/991142/how-does-this-bash-fork-bomb-work


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