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Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
The grep switches eliminate the need for awk and sed. Modifying vim with -p will show all files in separate tabs, -o in separate vim windows. Just wish it didn't hose my terminal once I exit vim!!

Print a single route to a destination and its contents exactly as the kernel sees it
Useful to determine the source_ip of outgoing packages to a certain destination

Create a thumbnail from a video file

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript
Remove security from PDF document using this very simple command on Linux and OSX. You need ghostscript for this baby to work.

VMware Server print out the state of all registered Virtual Machines.
I use this command on my machines running VMware Server to print out the state of all registered Virtual machines.

grep binary (hexadecimal) patterns
-P activates the Perl regular expression mode.

return the latest kernel version from a Satellite / Spacewalk server software channel

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

Find the package that installed a command

Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr
Not sure if it works the same on any shell.

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