hashcat m500 "line length exception

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Yup - that's it - thanks, I was confused with the usage statement.

Ok, next Q. I want to use a mask, but it's not clear how I do that. The usage suggests that I supply a mask or a wordlist file, however, whatever I supply is interpreted as being a file. None of the "attack-modes" explicitly state a mask mode.... confused :-(

Read this...

http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack