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(With some help from Zed) I managed to get this little hack working on my machine to let me quickly access passwords stored in the Keychain. Just add the following function to ~/.bash_profile and you'll be good to go:

function pw {
  security find-generic-password -a $1 -g 2>&1 | grep password | cut -d '"' -f2
}

Now whenever you need help remembering a password stored away in your keychain, you can just type pw account and it will print out on the console.