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