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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.

a function to create a box of '=' characters around a given string.
First argument: string to put a box around. Second argument: character to use for box (default is '=') Same as command #4948, but shorter, and without the utility function.

Display total Kb/Mb/Gb of a folder and each file

Reboot without being root
For more, See: https://github.com/noureddin/bash-scripts/blob/master/user_scripts/userpower

Archive all SVN repositories in platform indepenent form
This command dumps all SVN repositories inside of folder "repMainPath" (not recursively) to the folder "dumpPath", where one dump file will be created for each SVN repository.

Getting ESP and EIP addresses from running processes
'ps' let you specify the format that you want to see on the output.

preserve disk; keep OS clean
if you use disk-based swap then it can defeat the purpose of this function.

Shows all packages installed that are recommended by other packages
Shows the packages installed on your system that are recomemnded by other packages. You should remove these packages.

To have only unique lines in a file

Create a backup of the file.
It will create a backup of the filename. The advantage is that if you list the folder the backups will be sorted by date. The command works on any unix in bash.


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