FILTERS(6)

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.