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Feature: combinatorN #31

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vdun opened this issue May 24, 2017 · 5 comments
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Feature: combinatorN #31

vdun opened this issue May 24, 2017 · 5 comments

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@vdun
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vdun commented May 24, 2017

Make combinator accepts arbitrary number (n) of files

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jsteube commented May 24, 2017

Before I do, you know you can do this already? You can use combinator.bin with 2 files and write the output to file. Then run combinator.bin again with the new file and the 3rd file and write it to file, and so on...

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roycewilliams commented Jul 16, 2020

Well, part of the value of combinator is that it can be used to generate a list dynamically, without having to write it to disk first, in order to avoid using up a high amount of disk space.

An interesting use case for combinatorN is to combine wordlists with known qualities that you want to appear at specific positions. This is different from PRINCE, in which any item in the wordlist can appear in any position.

I am in favor of some kind of per-position combinator tool beyond what combinator3 can provide. Yes, the total number of combinations can increase quickly, but for shorter lists this could be very useful.

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singe commented Jul 21, 2020

#53 should address this, it will let you chain combinator across multiple pipes.

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This is a reasonable workaround, but still less convenient (and requiring more awareness of the OS than having direct support would)

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matrix commented Jan 17, 2021

@vdun, check this #58

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