On that note, is there a JACK command-line utility
that is as easy to
use as "|"?
That would be cool, if a, b, and c were JACK-enabled applications:
$ jack-pipe a : b : c
The gstreamer framework has a pipe-like approach.
See, for instance, the examples here:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/gst-launch-0.10
HTH,
L