[CalebJohn]

A lot of people in this thread seem to share my desire to replace some of what bash does with scripts. Which is why I wrote a utility to allow writing scripts in-between pipes [1].

The basic idea is to call this tool anytime you would be setting up a complex chain of unix pipes, and instead do the scripting in a an interactive environment that allows you to see output as you type. It's just a toy implementation right now and only supports python, but could eventually support any scripting environment (even bash).

I don't really see this as a serious tool, but it can be useful for the odd shell job. Or just for those who like immediate evaluation on every key stroke ;)

[1]: https://github.com/CalebJohn/shell-coupler