Command-line tool

crunch

brew/crunch

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Wordlist generator

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install crunch

Linux

brew install crunch

Output a list of words of length 1 to 3 with only lowercase characters

crunch 1 3

Output a list of hexadecimal words of length 8

crunch 8 8 0123456789abcdef

Output a list of all permutations of abc (lengths are not processed)

crunch 1 1 -p abc

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