FILTERS(6)

💖 FILTERS(6) — assorted text filters 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Games Manual, section 6, where FILTERS(6) lives. yes that's the whole vibe: a little family of chaos gremlins that mangle your text for absolutely no reason other than ✨amusement✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

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 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

$SHELL | chef

newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex

eleet | wall # b1ff works well too

b1ff | ircII | censor

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, every single one of these programs is a filter. they take text and do strange little things to it. for funsies. no personal, racial, religious or societal slurs are intended — none, zero, zip. this is for amusement only, periodt. 💀

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. iykyk. 🦋

• b1ff — The B1FF filter. iconic behavior honestly.
• lolcat — As seen in internet gifs everywhere. yes, that one. the cat. 🐱
• cockney — Cockney English, innit.
• chef — convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout. bork bork bork. 👨🍳
• eleet — K3wl hacker slang. l33t speak, the classic.
• 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. be vewy vewy quiet.
• 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. chaos mode, no cap. 🌀
• ken — English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming slang for a lot of computer terminology. the word "dubious" is doing a lot of work there bestie.
• kraut — Generates text with a bad German accent.
• kenny — Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park. mmpf mmmph mmph. 🧥
• 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. doubleplusgood.
• censor — CDA-ize text. 🔞
• nyc — Brooklyn English.
• pirate — Talk like a pirate. arrr. 🏴☠️
• 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. (do not use on your actual email bestie i'm begging 😭)
• 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. 🙃

🦋 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, converting text to OOG-speak.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

okay credit where credit is due, these legends made all of this:

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. 💖

and that's a wrap bestie 🫶 this was FILTERS(6) from the Games Manual — footer says FILTERS(6), and it's filed under section 6 of the Games Manual, so go forth and filter something silly. slay. 💅✨