| 1 | .TH FILTERS 6 |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fanboy, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kenny, kraut, ky00te, nethackify, newspeak, nyc, pirate, rasterman, scottish, spammer, scramble, studly, uniencode, upside\-down \- assorted text filters |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | $SHELL | chef |
| 6 | |
| 7 | newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex |
| 8 | |
| 9 | eleet | wall # b1ff works well too |
| 10 | |
| 11 | b1ff | ircII | censor |
| 12 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| 13 | All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text. |
| 14 | No personal, racial, religious or societal slurs are intended. For amusement |
| 15 | only. |
| 16 | .P |
| 17 | All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered |
| 18 | text to stdout. Some filters also support reading from files and |
| 19 | writing to stdout. |
| 20 | .IP b1ff |
| 21 | The B1FF filter |
| 22 | .IP lolcat |
| 23 | As seen in internet gifs everywhere. |
| 24 | .IP cockney |
| 25 | Cockney English |
| 26 | .IP chef |
| 27 | convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout |
| 28 | .IP eleet |
| 29 | K3wl hacker slang |
| 30 | .IP fanboy |
| 31 | Speak like a fanboy. Filters out extraneous words and focuses on the words |
| 32 | fans use. By default, it will speak like a fan of git/Linus/linux |
| 33 | development. To change this, pass as parameters the words that the fanboy |
| 34 | typically uses. Alternatively, pass the name of a topic that typically has |
| 35 | fanboys to use a predefined word list. |
| 36 | .IP fudd |
| 37 | Elmer Fudd |
| 38 | .IP jethro |
| 39 | Hillbilly text filter |
| 40 | .IP jive |
| 41 | Jive English |
| 42 | .IP jibberish |
| 43 | Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really |
| 44 | weird output. |
| 45 | .IP ken |
| 46 | English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming |
| 47 | slang for a lot of computer terminology. |
| 48 | .IP kraut |
| 49 | Generates text with a bad German accent. |
| 50 | .IP kenny |
| 51 | Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park. |
| 52 | .IP ky00te |
| 53 | This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck |
| 54 | fans) accent on any text file. |
| 55 | .IP nethackify |
| 56 | Wiped out text like can be found in nethack. |
| 57 | .IP newspeak |
| 58 | A-la-1984 |
| 59 | .IP censor |
| 60 | CDA-ize text |
| 61 | .IP nyc |
| 62 | Brooklyn English |
| 63 | .IP pirate |
| 64 | Talk like a pirate. |
| 65 | .IP rasterman |
| 66 | Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler. |
| 67 | .IP scottish |
| 68 | Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon" |
| 69 | from Order of the Stick. |
| 70 | .IP spammer |
| 71 | Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam. |
| 72 | .IP scramble |
| 73 | Scramble the "inner" letters of each word in the input into a random order. |
| 74 | The resulting text is still strangely readable. |
| 75 | .IP studly |
| 76 | Studly caps. |
| 77 | .IP uniencode |
| 78 | Use glorious unicode to the fullest possible extent. As seen previously in |
| 79 | many man pages. |
| 80 | .IP upside\-down |
| 81 | Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output. |
| 82 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 83 | Other filters: |
| 84 | .TP |
| 85 | .B pig |
| 86 | From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin. |
| 87 | .TP |
| 88 | .B dog --oog |
| 89 | From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to |
| 90 | OOG-speak. |
| 91 | .SH AUTHORS |
| 92 | The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by |
| 93 | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the |
| 94 | cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller |
| 95 | <rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson |
| 96 | <ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by |
| 97 | Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski |
| 98 | <jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>, |
| 99 | Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell |
| 100 | <dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by |
| 101 | Adam Borowski, Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge, |
| 102 | and scramble by Andrew J. Buehler. |