UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

You must receive your password at the output

Code:

awk 'BEGIN {RS="[[:space:]]+"; ORS="\n"}
/[[:punct:]]/ && /[[:digit:]]/ && /[[:lower:]]/ && /[[:upper:]]/ && /_/ {print}' story.txt

Without applying brute force, i.e. bruteforce

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This means that the password was created by a knowledgeable person in accordance with all security rules. And since the password is in the list of words in the story, we can find it by the presence of certain characters - "punctuation, upper and lower case characters, numbers and underscores"

Wouldn't it have been nice to mention that in your introductory post? Plus the tool / command you use to connect to the server.

Nor do I.

I'm sorry, I never said that. I didn't comment at all on your code as it was posted after me posting. Looking at it now, the second will print sort of a word list, but with duplicates and punctuation characters. Not sure what you want to do with it.



Let's start over. Please rephrase your request not in prose but in a concise, detailed, data supported, IT related specification. Like (let me try to paraphrase what I understood from your post #1):


Correct, adapt, and complete to suit your needs, and post again. The we can discuss.


If you're asking about the proposal I made in post #2 for getting a word list from a text file: The input to tr (man tr !) is redirected ( < , man bash or other shell) from a file "textfile".
As any other info on how to continue was missing in your post #1, that is where I had to stop.