Help on hashcat syntax

[zerohax]

Okay that is weird, if I make a file hash.txt with d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249:abcdefghj I get:

./hashcat -m 10 -a 0 hash.txt wordlist.txt
[...]
Hash 'hash.txt': Line-length exception
No hashes loaded

It won't read the file but it sees the text as a hash itself.

if you just run ./hashcat you'll see:

Usage: ./hashcat [options]... hash|hashfile|hccapfile [dictionary|mask|directory]...

which means hashfile should be possible there?

I don't know why this error occurs

Hi it seems that my salt is too long, I tried removing some characters and it proceeded. Does hashcat have some workaround on long salts? Thank you!