Ultimate Plumber

Ultimate Plumber provides a terminal‑based UI for interactively building and testing Linux text‑processing pipelines. Users redirect the output of any command into the program, then type a new Bash pipeline in the input box; pressing Enter runs the pipeline and shows a scrollable, live preview of its results below. Navigation through the preview uses PgUp/PgDn and arrow keys, while Ctrl‑X saves the constructed pipeline to a numbered script file and Ctrl‑C exits without saving.

The tool is aimed at developers and system administrators who need to explore and transform textual data quickly, allowing incremental experimentation with utilities such as grep, sort, cut, awk, perl, and others. It supports typical Bash syntax, handles long‑running commands with freeze/unfreeze controls (Ctrl‑S/Ctrl‑Q), and caps its input buffer at 40 MB.

Ultimate Plumber is distributed for Linux, available via Arch User Repository, FreeBSD packages, Homebrew, and other OS releases. It runs as a stable command‑line application and writes saved pipelines to files named up1.sh, up2.sh, etc., up to 1 000 variants.