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Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 17:05:22 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [john-core] Getting John's stdout unbuffered for Johnny

On 2015-05-31 15:01, Solar Designer wrote:
> However, I am not sure this was such a good idea.  Even with these
> exceptions, there may still be cases where the buffering was helpful.
> For example, I sometimes run "./john ... > /dev/null" when I am testing
> on huge numbers of easily crackable hashes.  Line buffering will make
> this run considerably slower.  Maybe this means that we need a --quiet
> or --silent option or/and a key or/and a john.conf setting to mute
> printing of guesses to stdout.

FWIW, Jumbo has it as --verbosity=N where default is 3. This is used for 
a variety of things. At -verb=1, printing of cracked hashes (as well as 
stdout candidates) is muted.

magnum


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