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11-14-2017

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Printf or any other method to put long string of spec characters - passing passwords

Hello,

I am looking for a method to use in my bash script which allows me to use long strings with all special characters.

I have found that printf method could be helpful for me but unfortunately, when I trying

Code:

root@machine:~# tevar=`printf "%s%c" "'``fF/0,g_V/Y)>^.(a0(,%<A.`8N:q*Rd|lCy0t9N'FDPs|S,$2(^$/*>5Ush*w87L#m@t~:[Ple+=Od633Z3m3xGV.zX+a-N%x1K=J7gOO=?1c$HZU78iVtJG1N[s@-eH#DwH]V5l}??XWI.YJ;4%:LmAEML9%4jm'Y6GXTc{DT7Iia$!+/[x.),b]5`iO3E,-+,44+9Fke45Z=m^ba.EP^)+GqZ.uQNF*sU9'Kxq6i19+ie*6rZjjCC.2`rSYVqlmHlHqeFBCapXXSxXROXUrljMWGsicEdCdPJuvbXnPXlENaBzpMBnRgtGsFtTYbHsyilugLrTSTMvGDGqSIhXhJISqnIuBwxfqr`'" ; echo $tevar
-bash: błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `)'

I am getting error

Code:

-bash: błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `)'

What is important - I need to pass different length strings, I don't know the length, and the positions of special characters.
This is a password from my password list and I need find working pass to archive.

What can I do to pass very long stream with any special character as a string and put it as variable in bash script?

Or - maybe I can make it outside the bash ? I am using 7 zip command line tool where I need to put the password as parameter like

7z t -pP@55w0rd!

where P@55w0rd! is my password.

What was my fault before (long time ago)- I have had used almost 5000 characters in passwords. I have lot of possible passes in my dictionary, and I am sure, that one of them will be correct.

Last edited by rbatte1; 11-15-2017 at 07:10 AM.. Reason: CODE tags and spelling corrections

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ltostr(3C)																ltostr(3C)

NAME

       ltostr(),  ultostr(),  ltoa(), ultoa() - convert long integers to strings

SYNOPSIS

   Obsolescent Interfaces
DESCRIPTION

	      Convert a signed long integer to the corresponding string
			     representation in the specified base.  The argument base must be between 2 and 36, inclusive.

	      Convert an unsigned long integer to the corresponding string
			     representation in the specified base.  The argument base must be between 2 and 36, inclusive.

	      Convert a signed long integer to the corresponding base 10
			     string representation, returning a pointer to the result.

	      Convert an unsigned long integer to the corresponding base 10
			     string representation, returning a pointer to the result.

       These functions are smaller and faster than using for simple conversions (see printf(3S)).

   Obsolescent Interfaces
       convert long integers to strings.

ERRORS

       If the value of base is not between 2 and 36, and return NULL and set the external variable to ERANGE.

WARNINGS

       The return values for and point to data whose content is overwritten by subsequent calls to these functions by the same thread.

       and  are  obsolescent interface supported only for compatibility with existing DCE applications. New multi-threaded applications should use
       and

AUTHOR

       and were developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       strtol(3C), printf(3S), thread_safety(5).

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