bcat A pipe to browser command line utility
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A pipe to browser command line utility bcat is an open source pipe to browser utility for use at the shell and within editors like Vim or Emacs. bcat reads from standard input, or one or more files, and streams output to a browser window.Plain text is converted to simple preformatted HTML with rudimentary support for ANSI/VT100 escape sequences (color, background, bold, underline, etc.)You can also pipe HTML into bcat, in which case input is written through to the browser unmodified.bcat is known to work under MacOS X, Linux, and FreeBSD (other UNIX-like environments with freedesktop.org integration should work fine too). Progressive output has been tested under Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and GNOME Epiphany.Installation: If you do not want to install bcat from source you can use the default installation method for all Ruby based tools. Because bcat is written in Ruby, it can be installed using the basic Ruby installation method, using the gem command:gem install bcat

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