man filters (Jeux) - assorted text filters
NAME
ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kraut, ky00te, nethack, newspeak, nyc, pirate, rasterman, spammer, 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.
- b1ff
- The B1FF filter
- cockney
- Cockney English
- chef
- convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
- eleet
- K3wl hacker slang
- 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.
- 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.
- spammer
- Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
- studly
- Studly caps.
- uniencode
- Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile 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
- /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
- Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
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, and kraut is by John Sparks.