Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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xclip -o -selection clipboard | sed 's/^/$ /' | xclip -selection clipboard
to prepend a "$ " to each line of text that's been copied into the X _clipboard_, eg via CTRL-C. dropping the '-selection clipboard' will cause sed to act on the X _selection_, which is text that's been highlighted but not copied. If you add '-selection clipboard' to the main example you will be able to paste the filtered file via CTRL-V instead of with the middle mouse button.