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