akavel/up

Health v2 · maintenance only

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8837 stars · 130 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

up (Ultimate Plumber) is a terminal-based interactive tool for building Linux shell pipelines with instant live preview of results. It lets you pipe any text-emitting command into it and incrementally write bash pipelines while viewing scrollable output in real time.

Use cases

• interactively explore textual data in the terminal
• build complex shell pipelines with instant feedback
• preview output of grep, awk, cut, sort pipelines live
• incrementally write and test bash pipelines
• save a finished pipeline to a shell script file
• debug long-running command output interactively

When to choose

• you frequently compose multi-stage text-processing pipelines and want a fast feedback loop
• you want a scrollable live preview of command output while writing a pipeline
• you work mostly in a Linux/macOS terminal with standard text utils

When to avoid

• you need structured (binary or JSON-schema-aware) data exploration rather than text lines
• you are on Windows without a Unix-like shell environment
• you need a GUI or IDE-integrated data explorer

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli terminal-ui developer-tools developer-tools text-editors cli cross-platform pipes tui interactive-preview text-processing live-programming command-line linux macos

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