scramble

scramble

scramble is a small utility that scrambles words in place.

scramble preserves line, word, and character counts, as well as punctuation and the positions of uppercase letters.

Usage

scramble reads from standard input:

$ cat lipsum.txt
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
$ scramble < lipsum.txt
Roelm miups dlroo sti tmae, cctrtensoeu niagdcpisi eitl.

or from a list of files:

$ scramble foo bar baz

Specify -r/--random to randomize the character replacements. This will render the document completely illegible.

$ scramble -r lipsum.txt
Iirka krfqq zeubz kgq khqz, dtovqdtdhue chyylzokja ulci.