filters.6

   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.