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 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.

AUTHORS

The eleet, upside-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by Joey Hess <[email protected]>. Daniel V Klein <[email protected]> wrote the cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller <[email protected]>, jethro is by Duane Paulson <[email protected]>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by Stephen K Mulrine <[email protected]>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]>, studly is by Nick Phillips <[email protected]>, Gurkan Sengun <[email protected]> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell <[email protected]> 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.