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