Crunch ! crunch generates wordlists

What is Crunch?

Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify. crunch can generate all possible combinations and permutations.

Features:

• crunch generates wordlists in both combination and permutation ways
• it can breakup output by number of lines or file size
• now has resume support
• pattern now supports number and symbols
• pattern now supports upper and lower case characters separately
• adds a status report when generating multiple files
• new -l option for literal support of @,%^
• new -d option to limit duplicate characters see man file for details
• now has unicode support

Crunch syntax

The basic syntax for crunch looks like this:

kali > crunch <min> max<max> <characterset> -t <pattern> -o <output filename>

Now, let’s go over what’s included in the syntax above.

• min – The minimum password length
• max – The maximum password length
• characterset – The character set
• -t <pattern> – The specified pattern of the generated passwords
• -o <outputfile> – The output file name