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EXAMPLES
Example 1
crunch 1 8
crunch will display a wordlist that starts at a and ends at zzzzzzzz

Example 2
crunch 1 6 abcdefg
crunch will display a wordlist using the character set abcdefg that starts at a
and ends at gggggg

Example 3
crunch 1 6 abcdefg\
there is a space at the end of the character string. In order for crunch to use
the space you will need to escape it using the \ character. In this example you
could also put quotes around the letters and not need the \, i.e. "abcdefg ".
Crunch will display a wordlist using the character set abcdefg that starts at a
and ends at (6 spaces)

Example 4
crunch 1 8 -f charset.lst mixalpha-numeric-all-space -o wordlist.txt
crunch will use the mixalpha-numeric-all-space character set from charset.lst and
will write the wordlist to a file named wordlist.txt. The file will start with a
and end with " "

Example 5
crunch 8 8 -f charset.lst mixalpha-numeric-all-space -o wordlist.txt -t @@dog@@@
-s cbdogaaa
crunch should generate a 8 character wordlist using the mixalpha-number-all-space
character set from charset.lst and will write the wordlist to a file named
wordlist.txt. The file will start at cbdogaaa and end at " dog "

Example 6
crunch 2 3 -f charset.lst ualpha -s BB
crunch with start generating a wordlist at BB and end with ZZZ. This is useful
if you have to stop generating a wordlist in the middle. Just do a tail
wordlist.txt and set the -s parameter to the next word in the sequence. Be sure
to rename the original wordlist BEFORE you begin as crunch will overwrite the
existing wordlist.

Example 7
crunch 4 5 -p abc
The numbers aren't processed but are needed.
crunch will generate abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba.

Example 8
crunch 4 5 -p dog cat bird
The numbers aren't processed but are needed.
crunch will generate birdcatdog, birddogcat, catbirddog, catdogbird, dogbirdcat,
dogcatbird.

Example 9
crunch 1 5 -o START -c 6000 -z bzip2
crunch will generate bzip2 compressed files with each file containing 6000 words.
The filenames of the compressed files will be first_word-last_word.txt.bz2

# time ./crunch 1 4 -o START -c 6000 -z gzip
real 0m2.729s
user 0m2.216s
sys 0m0.360s

# time ./crunch 1 4 -o START -c 6000 -z bzip2
real 0m3.414s
user 0m2.620s
sys 0m0.580s

# time ./crunch 1 4 -o START -c 6000 -z lzma
real 0m43.060s
user 0m9.965s
sys 0m32.634s

size filename
30K aaaa-aiwt.txt
12K aaaa-aiwt.txt.gz
3.8K aaaa-aiwt.txt.bz2
1.1K aaaa-aiwt.txt.lzma

Example 10
crunch 4 5 -b 20mib -o START
will generate 4 files: aaaa-gvfed.txt, gvfee-ombqy.txt, ombqz-wcydt.txt, wcydu-
zzzzz.txt
the first three files are 20MBs (real power of 2 MegaBytes) and the last file is
11MB.

Example 11
crunch 3 3 abc + 123 !@# -t @%^
will generate a 3 character long word with a character as the first character,
and number as the second character, and a symbol for the third character. The
order in which you specify the characters you want is important. You must spec‐
ify the order as lower case character, upper case character, number, and symbol.
If you aren't going to use a particular character set you use a plus sign as a
placeholder. As you can see I am not using the upper case character set so I am
using the plus sign placeholder. The above will start at a1! and end at c3#

Example 12
crunch 3 3 abc + 123 !@# -t ^%@
will generate 3 character words starting with !1a and ending with #3c

Example 13
crunch 4 4 + + 123 + -t %%@^
the plus sign (+) is a place holder so you can specify a character set for the
character type. crunch will use the default character set for the character type
when crunch encounters a + (plus sign) on the command line. You must either
specify values for each character type or use the plus sign. I.E. if you have
two characters types you MUST either specify values for each type or use a plus
sign. So in this example the character sets will be:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
123
!@#$%^&*()-_+=~`[]{}|\:;"'<>,.?/
there is a space at the end of the above string
the output will start at 11a! and end at "33z ". The quotes show the space at
the end of the string.

Example 14
crunch 5 5 -t ddd@@ -o j -p dog cat bird
any character other than one of the following: @,%^
is the placeholder for the words to permute. The @,%^ symbols have the same
function as -t.
If you want to use @,%^ in your output you can use the -l option to specify which
character you want crunch to treat as a literal.
So the results are
birdcatdogaa
birdcatdogab
birdcatdogac
<skipped>
dogcatbirdzy
dogcatbirdzz

Example 15
crunch 7 7 -t p@ss,%^ -l a@aaaaa
crunch will now treat the @ symbol as a literal character and not replace the
character with a uppercase letter.
this will generate
p@ssA0!
p@ssA0@
p@ssA0#
p@ssA0$
<skipped>
p@ssZ9

Example 16
crunch 5 5 -s @4#S2 -t @%^,2 -e @8 Q2 -l @dddd -b 10KB -o START
crunch will generate 5 character strings starting with @4#S2 and ending at @8 Q2.
The output will be broken into 10KB sized files named for the files starting and
ending strings.

Example 17
crunch 5 5 -d 2@ -t @@@%%
crunch will generate 5 character strings staring with aab00 and ending at zzy99.
Notice that aaa and zzz are not present.

Example 18
crunch 10 10 -t @@@^%%%%^^ -d 2@ -d 3% -b 20mb -o START
crunch will generate 10 character strings starting with aab!0001!! and ending at
zzy 9998 The output will be written to 20mb files.

Example 19
crunch 8 8 -d 2@
crunch will gernerate 8 characters that limit the same number of lower case char‐
acters to 2. Crunch will start at aabaabaa and end at zzyzzyzz.

Example 20
crunch 4 4 -f unicode_test.lst japanese -t @@%% -l @xdd
crunch will load some japanese characters from the unicode_test character set
file. The output will start at @日00 and end at @語99.

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