Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition

Cleaning a password list

Sometimes, when you get a list of passwords, the list might be tabbed columns in a text file or maybe have strange spaces of tabs mixed with the words in the file. You'll want to clean these spaces and tabs and have a single word per line for the word list to work with password crackers.

One of the earliest concepts of Unix was small programs within the system that can be piped together to perform complex tasks. Linux is the Red Headed Cousin of Unix and these tools are in every distribution of Linux, including Kali. This is old school but it works very well once you understand how to do it. We are going to go through each program used and then show how to string these together to perform this task all in a single ...