crunch Command Examples

Wordlist generator. More information: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crunch-wordlist/.

• Output a list of words of length 1 to 3 with only lowercase characters:

crunch {{1}} {{3}}

• Output a list of hexadecimal words of length 8:

crunch {{8}} {{8}} {{0123456789abcdef}}

• Output a list of all permutations of abc (lengths are not processed):

crunch {{1}} {{1}} -p {{abc}}

• Output a list of all permutations of the given strings (lengths are not processed):

crunch {{1}} {{1}} -p {{abc}} {{def}} {{ghi}}

• Output a list of words generated according to the given pattern and a maximum number of duplicate letters:

crunch {{5}} {{5}} {{abcde123}} -t {{@@@12}} -d 2@

• Write a list of words in chunk files of a given size, starting with the given string:

crunch {{3}} {{5}} -o {{START}} -b {{10kb}} -s {{abc}}

• Write a list of words stopping with the given string and inverting the wordlist:

crunch {{1}} {{5}} -o {{START}} -e {{abcde}} -i

• Write a list of words in compressed chunk files with a specified number of words:

crunch {{1}} {{5}} -o {{START}} -c {{1000}} -z {{gzip|bzip2|lzma|7z}}