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[Flyinghaggis]

Just to try to explain the detail of the problem also for potential future readers of this thread.

This has to do with your cmd/shell...

for instance %VAR% is a variable interpreted by your cmd shell.

you need to escape / quote them, if you do not use .hcchr files.

also see some links that explain it like: https://www.robvanderwoude.com/escapechars.php

%, ^, &, <, >, | etc are all special characters that your cmd shell interpret if and only if you do not escape/quote them.

hashcat has nothing to do with this problem, because this interpretation is done before hashcat is even launched... this happens beforehand

Thanks for that it make the command line a lot tidier