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
$SHELL | chef
newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex
eleet | wall # b1ff works well too
b1ff | ircII | censor
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.
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.
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.