Pipecut is described as 'Pipeline development tool that lets you see data as you type shell commands' and is an app. There are three alternatives to Pipecut for Linux and Mac. The best Pipecut alternative is Ultimate Plumber, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pipecut are Percol and Peco.
Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes interactively with instant live preview. It facilitates building complex pipelines by letting you interactively and incrementally explore text data as you type.
Percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal, commonly used with | (pipe concept on UNIX).
