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What is Crunch tool?

Crunch is a wordlist generating tool that comes pre-installed with Kali Linux. It is used to generate custom keywords based on wordlists. It generates a wordlist with permutation and combination. We could use some specific patterns and symbols to generate a wordlist.

STEP 1 : To install crunch tool use the following command : apt install crunch.

STEP 2 : To check the installation. Use - crunch -h .

STEP 3 : To save the wordlist to a file with -o option.

Use : crunch 1 2 0123456789 -o wordlist.txt - This command will generate a wordlist of 110 words having the one and 2 digit numbers with all combinations of digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and will copy the same to a text file named as wordlist.txt.

STEP 4 : To create a word list of specific numbers.

Use : crunch 1 2 0123456789 - This command will generate a wordlist of 110 words having the one and 2 digit numbers with all combinations of digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. you could use alphabets .