filters.6

   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.