akavel/up on Hacker News — Hacker GitHub

…smoke tests, etc. I see it might be handy for exploring your own pipelines (and so are things like https://github.com/akavel/up/ ) , but I advise against using this for any serious project management. Nontrivial and/or crucial code-blocks…

comment by Piraty · 2026-10-01 · in Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes

You're gonna absolutely love up ( https://github.com/akavel/up ). If you pipe curl's output to it, you'll get a live playground where you can finesse the rest of your pipeline. $ curl https://some-expensive.com/api/call | up

comment by aabdelhafez · 2025-10-23 · in Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

more general purpose is to use https://github.com/akavel/up eg. cat ./file.txt | up and inside up, jq away!

comment by cmcconomy · 2025-09-17 · in Jqp: TUI Playground to Experiment with Jq

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story by tosh · 2024-10-20 · 0 comments

…to build a long command I've been using the excellent `up` tool to do it, e.g. `cat file.txt | up` https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by Arcuru · 2024-10-20 · in The useful use of cat

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story by montyanderson · 2024-05-21 · 0 comments

When experimenting with its syntax, you may like to try using it "live" with: https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by akavel · 2024-04-29 · in Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line

…much (especially for long queries or non-ASCII data) so I'm keen on looking for a replacement. [0]: https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by 3PS · 2024-03-20 · in Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq

Sounds similar to this: https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by wazzaps · 2023-12-31 · in Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

…want to look at this thread [4] for what commands you can use with json. [1] Ultimate Plumber: https://github.com/akavel/up [2] Visidata: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata [3] "Intro to VisiData Tutorial":…

comment by leonim · 2023-09-20 · in Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

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story by thunderbong · 2023-07-13 · 0 comments

up: Ultimate Plumber for shell https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by dejj · 2023-07-13 · in Dt: Duck tape for your Unix pipes

Ultimate plumber can do this. https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by st0le · 2023-07-06 · in Show HN: LineSelect, shell utility to interactively select lines in a pipeline

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story by metadat · 2022-10-24 · 0 comments

…alternative allowing the use of any shell command/pipeline on the results interactively, see also: https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by akavel · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools

…discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455857 Also featured in that thread: https://github.com/akavel/up For example: echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview 'grep -R {q} . 2> /dev/null'

comment by LanternLight83 · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools

Ultimate Plumber https://github.com/akavel/up HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644110

comment by kbouck · 2022-01-28 · in RegExr: Learn, Build and Test Regex

https://github.com/akavel/up is another tool that can be used to make most of commands interactive

comment by ananthakumaran · 2022-01-09 · in FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON

…but it's fully in a "TUI" paradigm (i.e. curses-like), so I presume it wouldn't help you much ( https://github.com/akavel/up ). No promises, given that the tool as is scratched my itch, but I am honestly curious if something similar could…

comment by akavel · 2021-11-10 · in The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

https://github.com/akavel/up ?

comment by bornelsewhere · 2021-07-29 · in Command line tools for productive programmers

Could someone let me know if https://github.com/akavel/up works ok with it? (on Linux or Mac or WSL) I'd be grateful for feedback!

comment by akavel · 2021-06-16 · in GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell

…issue with a report/guide for that then on up , others might find that helpful! For details, see: https://github.com/akavel/up/releases/tag/v0.3

comment by akavel · 2021-03-31 · in UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

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story by ducktective · 2021-03-31 · 83 comments

You might like to also check out https://github.com/akavel/up when in need for some more complex filtering with live preview

comment by akavel · 2021-03-30 · in Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf

> https://github.com/akavel/up Holy shit, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

comment by boring_twenties · 2021-03-28 · in It Doesn't Work

…you a thumbs up!" 'issue' - no strings attached, no "but [could you do this or this for me]"... https://github.com/akavel/up/issues/14 - plus, for some bonus love, a few follow-ups from other wonderful people... not even counting the…

comment by akavel · 2021-03-28 · in It Doesn't Work

I like https://github.com/akavel/up as this works on the command line and helps building fast pipes not only with jq, but also with every other text wrangling tool. But I wish it would be a little bit more polished.

comment by rmetzler · 2020-06-06 · in Show HN: Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq

…tool I built, that helps interactively build Unix/Linux pipelines, dubbed "The Ultimate Plumber": https://github.com/akavel/up/ I've also recently seen it being described in shorter words as a "sticky REPL for shell". Hope you like it, and…

comment by akavel · 2020-06-04 · in The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

…it allows for a repl interface for awk https://paweldu.dev/posts/fzf-live-repl/ edit: There's also https://github.com/akavel/up which could possibly be used in combination with fzf

comment by tylorr · 2020-05-20 · in The State of the AWK

…step so I can see what’s happening. Here’s a tool I’ve seen around but never had a big need for: https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by shhsshs · 2019-10-15 · in The Unix Game

<shameless-plug> You may also like to have a look at https://github.com/akavel/up as an alternative. It now executes the command only after Enter is pressed (though originally I also went with execution on every keypress). By default it…

comment by akavel · 2019-07-17 · in Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL

Very cool. Relevant: https://github.com/akavel/up

comment by akkartik · 2019-07-17 · in Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL

…GitHub FOSS projects: https://github.com/akavel (HN Top 1 achievement: https://github.com/akavel/up ) Email: czapkofan@gmail.com (other contact: https://keybase.io/akavel ) Please don't contact me with offers related to: Ads, Fin

comment by akavel · 2019-06-03 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)

…GitHub FOSS projects: https://github.com/akavel (HN Top 1 achievement: https://github.com/akavel/up ) Email: czapkofan@gmail.com (other contact: https://keybase.io/akavel ) Please don't contact me with offers related to: Ads, Fin

comment by akavel · 2019-05-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)

up - https://github.com/akavel/up Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview It's a new CLI tool I've recently written, and it reached a Top 1 position on HN just after the public release. It works with…

comment by akavel · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

For mac: go get -u github.com/akavel/up

comment by msravi · 2018-10-25 · in Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

I've submitted an issue on GitHub, title "Executing incomplete commands is too dangerous". https://github.com/akavel/up/issues/8

comment by _kst_ · 2018-10-24 · in Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

…in such a kind and playful way :D It's totally on the long list in some way... please see https://github.com/akavel/up/issues/2 ! :)

comment by akavel · 2018-10-24 · in Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

* https://github.com/akavel/up/blob/master/up.go#L574 Please at least respect the SHELL environment variable. (-:

comment by JdeBP · 2018-10-24 · in Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

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story by ingve · 2018-10-24 · 6 comments

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story by akavel · 2018-10-24 · 217 comments