.TH FILTERS 6
.SH NAME
-ken, b1ff, chef, cockney, eleet, jethro, jibberish, jive, kraut, nyc, rasterman, upside-down \- assorted text filters
+ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fanboy, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kenny, kraut, ky00te, nethackify, newspeak, nyc, pirate, rasterman, scottish, spammer, scramble, studly, uniencode, upside\-down \- assorted text filters
.SH SYNOPSIS
$SHELL | chef
+
+ newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex
+
+ eleet | wall # b1ff works well too
+
+ b1ff | ircII | censor
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text.
-No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
+No personal, racial, religious or societal slurs are intended. For amusement
+only.
.P
All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
-text to stdout.
+text to stdout. Some filters also support reading from files and
+writing to stdout.
.IP b1ff
The B1FF filter
+.IP lolcat
+As seen in internet gifs everywhere.
.IP cockney
Cockney English
.IP chef
convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
.IP eleet
K3wl hacker slang
+.IP fanboy
+Speak like a fanboy. Filters out extraneous words and focuses on the words
+fans use. By default, it will speak like a fan of git/Linus/linux
+development. To change this, pass as parameters the words that the fanboy
+typically uses. Alternatively, pass the name of a topic that typically has
+fanboys to use a predefined word list.
+.IP fudd
+Elmer Fudd
.IP jethro
Hillbilly text filter
.IP jive
Jive English
.IP jibberish
-Runs text through all the rest of the filters, to make really weird output.
+Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
+weird output.
.IP ken
English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
slang for a lot of computer terminology.
.IP kraut
-Generates text with a German accent.
+Generates text with a bad German accent.
+.IP kenny
+Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
+.IP ky00te
+This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
+fans) accent on any text file.
+.IP nethackify
+Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.
+.IP newspeak
+A-la-1984
+.IP censor
+CDA-ize text
.IP nyc
Brooklyn English
+.IP pirate
+Talk like a pirate.
.IP rasterman
Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
-.IP upside-down
+.IP scottish
+Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
+from Order of the Stick.
+.IP spammer
+Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
+.IP scramble
+Scramble the "inner" letters of each word in the input into a random order.
+The resulting text is still strangely readable.
+.IP studly
+Studly caps.
+.IP uniencode
+Use glorious unicode to the fullest possible extent. As seen previously in
+many man pages.
+.IP upside\-down
Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
-Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
-.SH AUTHOR
-The eleet, upside-down, chef, and b1ff filters were written by Joey
-Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
+Other filters:
+.TP
+.B pig
+From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
+.TP
+.B dog --oog
+From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
+OOG-speak.
+.SH AUTHORS
+The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
+Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
<rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
<ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
-Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net> and kraut is by John Sparks.
+Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
+<jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>,
+Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
+<dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
+Adam Borowski, Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge,
+and scramble by Andrew J. Buehler.
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