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Bind a key with a command
the -x option is for binding to a shell command

generate random password
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Display condensed log in a tree-like format.
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check python syntax in vim

remove leading blank lines

Search some text from all files inside a directory

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

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

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Create md5sum of a directory


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