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cewl:tldr:3cdf7
cewl: Output an alphanumeric wordlist from the given URL with words of minimum 5 characters.
$ cewl --with-numbers --min_word_length ${5} ${url}
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The cewl
command is used to create a list of words (wordlist) from a given website or URL.
Here is the breakdown of the command you provided:
cewl
: This is the command itself.--with-numbers
: This option tells cewl to include numbers in the generated wordlist. In other words, it will also consider numbers as potential words.--min_word_length ${5}
: This option sets the minimum word length to 5. It specifies that only words with a length of at least 5 characters will be included in the wordlist.${url}
: This is a placeholder for the URL or website you want to crawl. You need to replace${url}
with the actual website or URL you want to generate the wordlist from.
So, when you run this command, cewl will start crawling the provided URL, extract words from it, including numbers, and create a wordlist with a minimum word length of 5 characters.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.