[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, scramble, 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. Some filters also support reading from files and
writing 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. Filters out extraneous words and focuses on the words
fans use. 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 scramble
Scramble the "inner" letters of each word in the input into a random order.
The resulting text is still strangely readable.
.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, Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge,
and scramble by Andrew J. Buehler.
Commit	Line	Data
	1	.TH FILTERS 6
	2	.SH NAME
	3	ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fanboy, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kenny, kraut, ky00te, nethack, 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 cockney
	23	Cockney English
	24	.IP chef
	25	convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
	26	.IP eleet
	27	K3wl hacker slang
	28	.IP fanboy
	29	Speak like a fanboy. Filters out extraneous words and focuses on the words
	30	fans use. By default, it will speak like a fan of git/Linus/linux
	31	development. To change this, pass as parameters the words that the fanboy
	32	typically uses. Alternatively, pass the name of a topic that typically has
	33	fanboys to use a predefined word list.
	34	.IP fudd
	35	Elmer Fudd
	36	.IP jethro
	37	Hillbilly text filter
	38	.IP jive
	39	Jive English
	40	.IP jibberish
	41	Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
	42	weird output.
	43	.IP ken
	44	English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
	45	slang for a lot of computer terminology.
	46	.IP kraut
	47	Generates text with a bad German accent.
	48	.IP kenny
	49	Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
	50	.IP ky00te
	51	This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
	52	fans) accent on any text file.
	53	.IP nethackify
	54	Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.
	55	.IP newspeak
	56	A-la-1984
	57	.IP censor
	58	CDA-ize text
	59	.IP nyc
	60	Brooklyn English
	61	.IP pirate
	62	Talk like a pirate.
	63	.IP rasterman
	64	Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
	65	.IP scottish
	66	Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
	67	from Order of the Stick.
	68	.IP spammer
	69	Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
	70	.IP scramble
	71	Scramble the "inner" letters of each word in the input into a random order.
	72	The resulting text is still strangely readable.
	73	.IP studly
	74	Studly caps.
	75	.IP uniencode
	76	Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile extent. As seen previously in
	77	many man pages.
	78	.IP upside\-down
	79	Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
	80	.SH "SEE ALSO"
	81	.IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
	82	Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
	83	.PP
	84	Other filters:
	85	.TP
	86	.B pig
	87	From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
	88	.TP
	89	.B dog --oog
	90	From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
	91	OOG-speak.
	92	.SH AUTHORS
	93	The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
	94	Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
	95	cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
	96	<rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
	97	<ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
	98	Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
	99	<jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>,
	100	Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
	101	<dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
	102	Adam Borowski, Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge,
	103	and scramble by Andrew J. Buehler.