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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.
31.IP fudd
32Elmer Fudd
33.IP jethro
34Hillbilly text filter
35.IP jive
36Jive English
37.IP jibberish
38Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
39weird output.
40.IP ken
41English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
42slang for a lot of computer terminology.
43.IP kraut
44Generates text with a bad German accent.
45.IP kenny
46Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
47.IP ky00te
48This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
49fans) accent on any text file.
50.IP nethackify
51Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.
52.IP newspeak
53A-la-1984
54.IP censor
55CDA-ize text
56.IP nyc
57Brooklyn English
58.IP pirate
59Talk like a pirate.
60.IP rasterman
61Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
62.IP scottish
63Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
64from Order of the Stick.
65.IP spammer
66Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
67.IP studly
68Studly caps.
69.IP uniencode
70Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile extent. As seen previously in
71many man pages.
72.IP upside\-down
73Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
74.SH "SEE ALSO"
75.IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
76Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
77.PP
78Other filters:
79.TP
80.B pig
81From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
82.TP
83.B dog --oog
84From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
85OOG-speak.
86.SH AUTHORS
87The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
88Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
89cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
90<rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
91<ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
92Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
93<jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>,
94Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
95<dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
96Adam Borowski, and Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge.
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