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[filters.git] / filters.6

.TH FILTERS 6
.SH NAME
ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fanboy, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kenny, kraut, ky00te, nethack, newspeak, nyc, pirate, rasterman, scottish, spammer, studly, uniencode, upside\-down \- assorted text filters
.SH SYNOPSIS
 $SHELL | chef
 
 newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex

 eleet | wall # b1ff works well too

 b1ff | ircII | censor
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text.
No personal, racial, religious or societal slurs are intended. For amusement
only.
.P
All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
text to stdout.
.IP b1ff
The B1FF filter
.IP cockney
Cockney English
.IP chef
convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
.IP eleet
K3wl hacker slang
.IP fanboy
Speak like a fanboy. By default, it will speak like a fan of git/Linus/linux
development. To change this, pass as parameters the words that the fanboy
typically uses. Alternatively, pass the name of a topic that typically has
fanboys to use a predefined word list.
.IP fudd
Elmer Fudd
.IP jethro
Hillbilly text filter
.IP jive
Jive English
.IP jibberish
Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
weird output.
.IP ken
English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
slang for a lot of computer terminology.
.IP kraut
Generates text with a bad German accent.
.IP kenny
Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
.IP ky00te
This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
fans) accent on any text file.
.IP nethackify
Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.
.IP newspeak
A-la-1984
.IP censor
CDA-ize text
.IP nyc
Brooklyn English
.IP pirate
Talk like a pirate.
.IP rasterman
Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
.IP scottish
Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
from Order of the Stick.
.IP spammer
Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
.IP studly
Studly caps.
.IP uniencode
Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile extent. As seen previously in
many man pages.
.IP upside\-down
Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
.PP
Other filters:
.TP
.B pig
From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
.TP
.B dog --oog
From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
OOG-speak.
.SH AUTHORS
The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
<rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
<ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
<jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>, 
Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
<dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
Adam Borowski, and Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge.