airolib counts less passwords than file contains..?

[Rafter]

I did a trim to the included /pentest/passwords/wordlist/darkcode.txt file with:

cat darkcode.txt | pw-inspector -m 8 -M 63 > darkcode-trimmed.txt

Then added password and essid to airolib database

root@bt:~/share# airolib-ng darkcode-essid-pmk-database --import passwd darkcode-wpa-trimmed.txt
Reading file...
Writing...nes read, 66713 invalid lines ignored.

Now doing stats on the database.

root@bt:~/share# airolib-ng darkcode-essid-pmk-database --stats
There are 7 ESSIDs and 993932 passwords in the database.

Reading how many lines of text the trimmed darkcode-wpa-trimmed.txt contains.

root@bt:~/share# less darkcode-wpa-trimmed.txt | wc -c
"darkcode-wpa-trimmed.txt" may be a binary file.  See it anyway? y
14585999

My question is. How come 14Million lines minus "66713 invalid lines ignored" only becomes 993932 passwords in the database?

[Archangel-Amael]

Your using the wrong command option above.
wc -c prints out the bytes, this is not the number of words.
Considering that the above darkcode.txt is actually darkc0de.lst , and that each word is on a line by itself then you would need to do either # wc -l = 1214796, where -l is newline count, or # wc -w = 1320507 where -w is the words count.
Remember that a line is not necessarily a word, in the above.

[Rafter]

Thank you
So a 'wc -l' is the correct usage in my case? Since a line of text can consist of more that one word, and my guess is that airolib-ngg also counts ALL text on each (new)line, as one single password, correct?
Found it by some forum or google search. My mistake I didn't dobbelttjeck it.

Is it also correct that you moved this thread from Beginners Forum Area? I wasn't aware of it being an Experts question, since Im' clearly not an expert, ha ha I just couldn't find it.

Regards
Rafter

[Archangel-Amael]

Well again, it depends, the -l counts the instances of new line. Whereas -w is the actual word count. So it can be different.
Check the wc man page for more info. Also have a look at Newline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < wiki but should suffice.
As for the location, I am not sure where it was at or if I even moved it. But it's location is ok I suppose.