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Fetch all GPG keys that are currently missing in your keyring
For instance, if people have signed your key, this will fetch the signers' keys.

grep for minus (-) sign
Use flag "--" to stop switch parsing

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Get absolut path to your bash-script
Another way of doing it that's a bit clearer. I'm a fan of readable code.

Mount a temporary ram partition
For FreeBSD

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

See a full list of compiler defined symbols
From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/01/msg00971.html .

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

show all established tcp connections on os x

Delete files older than..
This command will delete files i a given path (/dir_name) , which older than given time in days (-mtime +5 will delete files older than five days.


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