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