rot13(1)

💖 NAME 💖

rot13 — the ultimate shortcut to tr(1) for doing ROT13, no cap ✨

🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

rot13 [file...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bestie, ROT13 (which literally stands for "rotate by 13 places", and yes people sometimes write it all hyphenated like ROT-13, either one is fine, we don't gatekeep 💅) is a simple letter substitution cipher. the vibe is: you take a letter and swap it out for the letter that sits 13 letters after it in the Latin alphabet. that's it. that's the whole cipher. iconic honestly 🌸

and here's the thing — rot13(1) is not out here reinventing the wheel. it calls out to tr(1) to do the actual substitution for it, like a main character delegating to her very capable bestie 🫶

by default it reads from standard input, but if you hand it some filenames it'll read from those instead. periodt. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• hxtools(7) — go read it, iykyk 💜

so that's the whole page bestie 💖 this little gem comes from hxtools, dated 2013-08-02 — yes she's an elder but she still slays, and honestly? she ate 🎀✨💅