FILTERS(1)FILTERS(1)NAME
ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fanboy, fudd, jethro, jibber‐
ish, jive, kenny, kraut, ky00te, nethackify, newspeak, nyc, pirate,
rasterman, scottish, spammer, scramble, studly, uniencode, upside-down
- assorted text filtersSYNOPSIS
$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 fil‐
tered 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 prede‐
fined 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 Hait‐
zler.
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 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
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, con‐
verting 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@cleve‐
land.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@gun‐
ters.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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