WPA wordlist cleaning

[jenbo]

hi guys.

i have a WPA 4.9 gb wordlist, i have allredy done the cat thing i.e

cat ***** | sort | uniq > ******
&
cat ***** | pw-inspector -m 8 -M 30 > ******

But my problem is that cowpatty database refuses to run after i add it, i think this is becoz it contains shit chars such as )(*&^^%^$%^$£"£!><?L:{} and so on.

So how do i revove all the shit.

I have Read a post on grep, sed and tr.
but i cant understand how this would work as it makes little sence to me at all. (Am a Newbie..lol)

thanks.

[kidFromBigD]

Originally Posted by jenbo

hi guys.

i have a WPA 4.9 gb wordlist, i have allredy done the cat thing i.e

cat ***** | sort | uniq > ******
&
cat ***** | pw-inspector -m 8 -M 30 > ******

But my problem is that cowpatty database refuses to run after i add it, i think this is becoz it contains shit chars such as )(*&^^%^$%^$£"£!><?L:{} and so on.

So how do i revove all the shit.

I have Read a post on grep, sed and tr.
but i cant understand how this would work as it makes little sence to me at all. (Am a Newbie..lol)

thanks.

Alright, I think many of us have been in your shoes at some point. For me, the learning curve was steep and had many setbacks. Stay with it and eventually you will have your files whipped into shape and working with cowpatty or whatever you choose.

I've had good success with the tr command. Plenty of times wondered what it was doing, and plenty of times had to refer back to the man page, and then google for examples.

As for cowpatty, you do not mention which version you have, nor if you're running BT3 or BT4 pre-final. There's differences. Nuances.

Sorry, there's few shortcuts here.

[Gitsnik]

As the man said, lots of Nuances, but here are some basics:

sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g' passwd.txt | sort -u > cleanerthanbefore.txt

That will remove all but a-zA-Z0-9 from the file (but not new lines). You could go with all uppercase:

sed 's/[^A-Z]//g' passwd.txt | sort -u > cleanerthanbefore.txt

Or all numbers:

sed 's/[^0-9]//g' passwd.txt | sort -u > cleanerthanbefore.txt

Or perhaps you want to remove all the numbers from the file:

sed 's/[0-9]//g' passwd.txt | sort -u > cleanerthanbefore.txt

There are hundreds of tutorials out there on sed, grep, awk, perl and tr - especially the one liners like the above - all over the place, check any out you can find. Make special notes of the sed1line.txt from sourceforge (same for awk).

[pureh@te]

The wordlist is not your problem, cowpatty will take all those characters just fine. Your problem is that if you are running cowpatty on backtrack it is a 32 bit system and there are limitations. Cowpatty and various other programs will not handel a file bigger the 2 gigs on a 32 bit system. So the only solution it to break you wordlists up or run cowpatty on a 64 bit OS

[jenbo]

Originally Posted by kidFromBigD

Alright, I think many of us have been in your shoes at some point. For me, the learning curve was steep and had many setbacks. Stay with it and eventually you will have your files whipped into shape and working with cowpatty or whatever you choose.

I've had good success with the tr command. Plenty of times wondered what it was doing, and plenty of times had to refer back to the man page, and then google for examples.

As for cowpatty, you do not mention which version you have, nor if you're running BT3 or BT4 pre-final. There's differences. Nuances.

Sorry, there's few shortcuts here.

yes, soz for the lack of info. i have BT4 final

[jenbo]

Originally Posted by pureh@te

The wordlist is not your problem, cowpatty will take all those characters just fine. Your problem is that if you are running cowpatty on backtrack it is a 32 bit system and there are limitations. Cowpatty and various other programs will not handel a file bigger the 2 gigs on a 32 bit system. So the only solution it to break you wordlists up or run cowpatty on a 64 bit OS

its a shame there is'nt a 64 bit version of BT4, as i do have have 4 Gb ram with goes to waste on a 32 bit system. (am glad thy dropped slax, witch was a good start)

I knew that there was a wordlist limit on Aircrack-ng but i didnt think that cowatty had such a limit, i guess that would explain it.

thanks evryone for your answers, and putting up with yet anouther nube aksking silly questions.. lol