FILTERS

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

$SHELL | chef

newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex

eleet | wall # b1ff works well too

b1ff | ircII | censor

DESCRIPTION

All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text. No personal, racial, religious or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.

All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered text to stdout. Some filters also support reading from files and writing to stdout.

	b1ff	The B1FF filter
	lolcat	As seen in internet gifs everywhere.
	cockney	Cockney English
	chef	convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
	eleet	K3wl hacker slang
	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.
	fudd	Elmer Fudd
	jethro	Hillbilly text filter
	jive	Jive English

jibberish

Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really weird output.

	ken		English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming slang for a lot of computer terminology.
	kraut		Generates text with a bad German accent.
	kenny		Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
	ky00te		This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck fans) accent on any text file.

nethackify

Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.

newspeak

A-la-1984

	censor		CDA-ize text
	nyc		Brooklyn English
	pirate		Talk like a pirate.

rasterman

Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.

scottish

Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon" from Order of the Stick.

spammer

Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.

scramble

Scramble the "inner" letters of each word in the input into a random order. The resulting text is still strangely readable.

studly

Studly caps.

uniencode

Use glorious unicode to the fullest possible extent. As seen previously in many man pages.

upside-down

Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.

SEE ALSO

Other filters:

pig

From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.

dog --oog

From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to OOG-speak.

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>, 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.