vipe for babashka - see https://github.com/juliangruber/vipe

bipe

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# temp file
t=/tmp/bipe.$$.txt
touch $t

# read from stdin

if [ ! -t 0 ]; then
  cat > $t
fi

# spawn babashka with stdio connected

rlwrap bb -e "
(def stdin (slurp \"$t\"))

(def res (atom stdin))

(.addShutdownHook (.getRuntime Runtime)
  (Thread. (fn [] (spit \"$t\" @res))))

(binding [*1 *1
          *2 *2
          *3 *3]
  (clojure.main/repl
    :init (fn [] (println \"Evaluate 'stdin' to see piped input.\")
                 (println \"The last return value is piped to the next command.\")
                 (println \"Use :repl/quit to quit the REPL.\"))
    :eval (fn [x] (let [x (eval x)]
            (reset! res x)
            ;; this should not be part of the eval function and should be fixed in bb's clojure.main/repl
            ;; similar for *e
            (set! *3 *2)
            (set! *2 *1)
            (set! *1 x)
            x))))

(spit \"$t\" @res)
" < /dev/tty > /dev/tty || exit $?

# write to stdout

cat $t

# cleanup

rm $t