Dictionary Attack with increment

[Saduj]

To be fair, there's not a lot on the wiki to answer this specific question.

Some folks would probably either one-time filter the wordlist on the fly with `grep` or similar, or else grep it once and save the results, depending on the size of the wordlist.

You can also use `-j` with a rules file that contains `_8` ("_" is a "reject" rule, but only works with `-j` / `-k`).

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Thank you, I was just looking into grep. I used power shell in windows to Get-Content D:\Wordlist\weakpass_3a | Select-String "^.{8}$" > 8_letter_words.txt and it's currently compiling the list of 8 letters saving to file. 

I will def look into the other option you offered. -j. I appreciate your help and leads you have given me. I'm new to hashcat and looking to explore all its capabilities and the like. Thanks again