pex makes piping easier.
Or with audio, a narrated pex demo on YouTube.
go install github.com/josharian/pex@latest
pex [files...]
or
command | pex
pex will then give you an interactive environment for simple shell-based processing.
Iterate on your shell pipeline. Use up/down/pgup/pgdown to scroll. Use left/right/tab/shift+tab to scroll other columns.
Press escape to exit pex. It'll print the pipeline you worked out.
This is still very much a "I hacked it together" toy. It has rough edges and missing features. And no doubt plenty of bugs.
If you want to improve it, great. Please see todo.md. Note that I am not the world's speediest reviewer.
If you hate it, that's fine too, but don't bother telling me about it.