UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

For fast iteration with pipes, using only basic unix tools, and arguably less risky to fat-fingering, I write it in a file, and use watch -n1. Easy to modify, temporarily comment parts of it, etc... Also, I wrote this plog function (for pipe-log, or something): plog() { local msg=${1:-plog} tee >(sed -e "s/^/[$msg] /" | cat 1>&2 ) } That allows me to see what's happening in the middle steps of the pipeline. I ended up compiling a list of…

Careful with rm: r rm rm - rm -rf rm -rf ~ rm -rf ~/ rm -rf ~/tmp # where did my files go?

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