Crunch: using -d 1, -d 1% options with first two chars DD

The Scenario

According to your requirements, the words in your wordlist should have :

1. Two Uppercase D's ie. DD followed by
2. Two non-repeating Uppercase characters followd by
3. Two non-repeating Numbers.

Going by the requirements first word should be DDAB01. Now , consider these two points :

1. man crunch and look for -t option

   -t @,%^
         Specifies  a pattern, eg: @@god@@@@ where the only the @'s, ,'s,
         %'s, and ^'s will change.
         @ will insert lower case characters
         , will insert upper case characters
         % will insert numbers
         ^ will insert symbols
   

   So, any pattern specified by -t option is treated as a literal character except for the characters @ , , , % and ^ that are replaced with characters as defined by crunch.

   In your case pattern is DD,,%% that contains 2 repeating literal uppercase D's

2. Now, man crunch and look for -d option

   -d numbersymbol
         Limits the number of duplicate characters.   -d  2@  limits  the
         lower  case  alphabet to output like aab and aac.  aaa would not
         be generated as that is 3 consecutive letters of a.  The  format
         is  number  then  symbol  where  number is the maximum number of
         consecutive characters and symbol  is  the  symbol  of  the  the
         character set you want to limit i.e. @,%^
   

You have written in your command, -d 1, that means No repetition of uppercase characters and -d 1% meaning No repetition of Numbers.

The Problem

• -d 1,

  You have specified to -d option that, there should be only one instance of characters and numbers ignoring any repetitions.

• -t DD,,%%

  But you have passed a pattern that itself contains repetition of letter D. As soon as -d option encounters DD in the pattern itself, It makes the program to exit out generating 0 lines. Hope you understand now, what you were doing wrong.

The Solution / Workaround

Create 4-length wordlist and pipe it to sed or awk to append DD at beginning and finally redirect to wordlist file.

crunch 4 4 -d 1,% -t ,,%% | sed 's/^/DD/' > wordlist

OR

crunch 4 4 -d 1,% -t ,,%% | awk '{ print "DD"$1 }' > wordlist

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