filters.6

   1 .TH FILTERS 6
   2 .SH NAME
   3 ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, 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 fudd
  28 Elmer Fudd
  29 .IP jethro
  30 Hillbilly text filter
  31 .IP jive
  32 Jive English
  33 .IP jibberish
  34 Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
  35 weird output.
  36 .IP ken
  37 English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
  38 slang for a lot of computer terminology.
  39 .IP kraut
  40 Generates text with a bad German accent.
  41 .IP kenny
  42 Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
  43 .IP ky00te
  44 This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
  45 fans) accent on any text file.
  46 .IP nethackify
  47 Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.
  48 .IP newspeak
  49 A-la-1984
  50 .IP censor
  51 CDA-ize text
  52 .IP nyc
  53 Brooklyn English
  54 .IP pirate
  55 Talk like a pirate.
  56 .IP rasterman
  57 Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
  58 .IP scottish
  59 Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
  60 from Order of the Stick.
  61 .IP spammer
  62 Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
  63 .IP studly
  64 Studly caps.
  65 .IP uniencode
  66 Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile extent. As seen previously in
  67 many man pages.
  68 .IP upside\-down
  69 Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
  70 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  71 .IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
  72 Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
  73 .PP
  74 Other filters:
  75 .TP
  76 .B pig
  77 From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
  78 .TP
  79 .B dog --oog
  80 From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
  81 OOG-speak.
  82 .SH AUTHORS
  83 The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
  84 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
  85 cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
  86 <rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
  87 <ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
  88 Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
  89 <jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>,
  90 Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
  91 <dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
  92 Adam Borowski, and Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge.