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I’m pleased to announce the first public release of a small project I’ve been working on: bcat is a command line utility that streams text or HTML input to a web browser. Input is unbuffered and displayed progressively as it’s read from standard input, so bcat works great with programs that generate output over longish periods of time like build tools, tail(1), etc. It’s also useful for previewing HTML output when working on Markdown, Textile, AsciiDoc, Ronn, DocBook, etc. source files.

The plan is to bring as many of TextMate’s excellent HTML output capabilities as is feasible to the shell and to editors like vim or Emacs.