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It allows customizing by means of lesspipe. You need to write a ~/.lessfilter script and put this into your ~/.bashrc: eval $(lesspipe) export LESS=-r

dump 1KB of data from ram to file

Copy an element from the previous command
You can specify a range via '-'.

Length of longest line of code
Here's an awk version.

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

capture selected window

Get IP from hostname

Create an SSH tunnel for accessing your remote MySQL database with a local port

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