Star Trek Enterprise Bottle Opener - I Want One Of Those. Neat tricks for the MySQL command-line pager. June 23, 2008 by Baron Schwartz15 Comments How many of you use the mysql command-line client?
 And did you know about the pager command you can give it?  It’s pretty useful. It tells mysql to pipe the output of your commands through the specified program before displaying it to you. Here’s the most basic thing I can think of to do with it: use it as a pager. (It’s scary how predictable I am sometimes, isn’t it?) MySQL Performance Blog.