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hashcat_example

run through list of hashes (example0.hash) and run brute force attack (-a 3) for 8-letter lower case password

hashcat -a 3 example0.hash ?l?l?l?l?l?l?l?l 

run through list of hashes (example0.hash) and run brute force attack (-a 3) for 6-letter lower case with 2 digits at the end

hashcat -a 3 example0.hash ?l?l?l?l?l?l?d?d 

Crack MD5 password (-m 0), dictionary attack (-a 0) and output to cracked.txt, target_hashes.txt is the input file and rockyou.txt is the wordlist for dictionary attack

hashcat -m 0 -a 0 -o cracked.txt target_hashes.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt

Complete list of hash types