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Wordlist word spacing - funtrustboi33 - 08-10-2013
Does hashcat read wordswithoutspaces as one word? And if so how do I separate the words in the huge free word lists you can find online. Thanks in advance
RE: Wordlist word spacing - philsmd - 08-10-2013
"wordswithoutspaces" ?
yes, *hashcat reads line by line, regardless if there are spaces in some lines of your wordlist.
If you meant "wordswithspaces", yes they are tested as 1 plain and not split
If you instead want to split by space you can use a simple sed command etc:
sed 's! !\n!g' wordswithspaces_orig.txt > wordswithspaces_dict.txt
sort -u wordswithspaces_dict.txt > wordswithspaces_dict_sorted.txt
RE: Wordlist word spacing - funtrustboi33 - 08-10-2013
(08-10-2013, 02:11 PM)philsmd Wrote: "wordswithoutspaces" ?Thanks!
yes, *hashcat reads line by line, regardless if there are spaces in some lines of your wordlist.
If you meant "wordswithspaces", yes they are tested as 1 plain and not split
If you instead want to split by space you can use a simple sed command etc:
sed 's! !\n!g' wordswithspaces_orig.txt > wordswithspaces_dict.txt
sort -u wordswithspaces_dict.txt > wordswithspaces_dict_sorted.txt
I have downloaded a bunch of wordlist .txt files and most of them are all one long word, I was wondering if there is a way to take those giant words and space them out (other then manually doing it). Im using windows btw
RE: Wordlist word spacing - philsmd - 08-10-2013
running sed is not doing it manually. Doing it manually would mean change every space by hand - line by line
Sed/awk/tr can be used on windows. I know that, because I used them myself.
Otherwise you should be able to use any text-editor w/ replace feature (not recommended because slow).
Maybe also a simple cmd batch script with file reading (for loop) + replace should work.
It's very clear why hashcat uses newlines as word-terminator... and it is kind of a good choice, but of course any choice can't fit to all use-cases (like yours).
Many passwords (including passphrases) contain spaces, therefore using spaces as plain-terminator would be a bad choice.
Anyway, I am not sure if you really find a lot of wordlist with 1 line only (that doesn't make sense at all).
Maybe you just use the *wrong* text-editor to display them (see windows vs unix line-terminators \r\n vs \n)
Notepad++ could be kind of a good choice for a modern text-editor in windows (also if I prefer others - vim, gvim etc).
RE: Wordlist word spacing - funtrustboi33 - 08-10-2013
Ah I see I was using notepad to view it. Thanks for your help