it's not really safe to do it this way, but you could for instance use something like this:
then you could get the total number of password candidates and calculate a percentage.
if you have the percentage value, you could for instance start a few percent earlier (to be safer) and use --skip (or short -s) with a value that is the same percentage, but multiplied by the keyspace (which is not the total number of password candidates, see https://hashcat.net/faq#what_is_a_keyspace) and then run the original mask with this skip (-s) value (and of course do not forget to add --keep-guessing).
Again, this is not guaranteed to leave no gaps between the previous run and the new skip/restore value, therefore a --skip value (slightly) below the one calculated is required and this "hack" shouldn't be used in general, because it's a little bit dangerous due to the nature of highly parallelized execution with your OpenCL/CUDA devices. Often there are other means to restore in a more safer way (using --restore and/or --skip with the restore point value etc, but I'm pretty sure you didn't keep the old hashcat.restore file or any screenshots etc)
Code:
hashcat --stdout -a 3 [THE_MASK] | grep -n -m 1 '^[THE_FALSE_POSITVE_PASSWORD]$'then you could get the total number of password candidates and calculate a percentage.
if you have the percentage value, you could for instance start a few percent earlier (to be safer) and use --skip (or short -s) with a value that is the same percentage, but multiplied by the keyspace (which is not the total number of password candidates, see https://hashcat.net/faq#what_is_a_keyspace) and then run the original mask with this skip (-s) value (and of course do not forget to add --keep-guessing).
Again, this is not guaranteed to leave no gaps between the previous run and the new skip/restore value, therefore a --skip value (slightly) below the one calculated is required and this "hack" shouldn't be used in general, because it's a little bit dangerous due to the nature of highly parallelized execution with your OpenCL/CUDA devices. Often there are other means to restore in a more safer way (using --restore and/or --skip with the restore point value etc, but I'm pretty sure you didn't keep the old hashcat.restore file or any screenshots etc)