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, 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.
  19 .IP b1ff
  20 The B1FF filter
  21 .IP cockney
  22 Cockney English
  23 .IP chef
  24 convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
  25 .IP eleet
  26 K3wl hacker slang
  27 .IP fanboy
  28 Speak like a fanboy. Filters out extraneous words and focuses on the words
  29 fans use. By default, it will speak like a fan of git/Linus/linux
  30 development. To change this, pass as parameters the words that the fanboy
  31 typically uses. Alternatively, pass the name of a topic that typically has
  32 fanboys to use a predefined word list.
  33 .IP fudd
  34 Elmer Fudd
  35 .IP jethro
  36 Hillbilly text filter
  37 .IP jive
  38 Jive English
  39 .IP jibberish
  40 Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
  41 weird output.
  42 .IP ken
  43 English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
  44 slang for a lot of computer terminology.
  45 .IP kraut
  46 Generates text with a bad German accent.
  47 .IP kenny
  48 Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
  49 .IP ky00te
  50 This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
  51 fans) accent on any text file.
  52 .IP nethackify
  53 Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.
  54 .IP newspeak
  55 A-la-1984
  56 .IP censor
  57 CDA-ize text
  58 .IP nyc
  59 Brooklyn English
  60 .IP pirate
  61 Talk like a pirate.
  62 .IP rasterman
  63 Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
  64 .IP scottish
  65 Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
  66 from Order of the Stick.
  67 .IP spammer
  68 Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
  69 .IP studly
  70 Studly caps.
  71 .IP uniencode
  72 Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile extent. As seen previously in
  73 many man pages.
  74 .IP upside\-down
  75 Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
  76 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  77 .IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
  78 Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
  79 .PP
  80 Other filters:
  81 .TP
  82 .B pig
  83 From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
  84 .TP
  85 .B dog --oog
  86 From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
  87 OOG-speak.
  88 .SH AUTHORS
  89 The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
  90 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
  91 cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
  92 <rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
  93 <ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
  94 Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
  95 <jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>,
  96 Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
  97 <dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
  98 Adam Borowski, and Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge.