progpick(1)                 General Commands Manual                progpick(1)

NAME
       progpick - Bruteforce with a stream of permutations of a specific
       pattern

SYNOPSIS
       progpick [-vqc] [-e cmd] PATTERN

DESCRIPTION
       progpick is a program to generate permutations of an explicitly
       provided pattern. It's useful if you forgot some details about a
       passphrase but you still remember most of it.

OPTIONS
       -v, --verbose
           Verbose logs (can be used multiple times, maximum: 4)

       -q, --quiet
           Do not print progress bar

       -c, --count
           Count total number of permutations instead of printing them

       -e cmd, --exec cmd
           Send permutations to stdin of a subprocess. cmd is parsed into a
           list of arguments and then executed directly instead of going
           through /bin/sh, so shell quoting works, but other shell features
           don't.

       -h, --help
           Prints help information.

EXAMPLES
       Generate all combinations from a-z with a length of 5

           progpick '{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}'

       With progress bar

           progpick '{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}' > /dev/null

       Without progress bar

           progpick -q '{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}' > /dev/null

       To make a character optional

           progpick '{a..z}{{a..z},}'

       From a-z and 0-9

           progpick '{{a..z},{0..9}}'

       Run a script for each result

           progpick 'a{b,c{d,e{f,g}}}' | while read -r x; do
               ./script "$x"
           done

       Send the result to stdin of a script

           progpick -e './script.sh' 'a{b,c{d,e{f,g}}}'

       Attempt to open a luks partition

           sudo progpick -e 'cryptsetup open --test-passphrase /dev/sdc1'
           'a{b,c{d,e{f,g}}}'

AUTHORS
       This program was originally written and is currently maintained by
       kpcyrd. Bug reports and patches are welcome on github:

           https://github.com/kpcyrd/progpick

                                  2022-06-17                       progpick(1)