Help with partial known simple OS X password

[philsmd]

-a 3 is for mask attack (https://hashcat.net/wiki/mask_attack), if you want to use a wordlist, you need to use -a 0

I'm not sure what D:\cracked.txt or [path to cracked.txt] mean in your example. If you want to call the output file like that, you need to use the -o option.

Code:

./hashcat -m 7100 -a 3 -o output_file.txt hashes.txt ?l?l?l?d?d?d?d

the general format is
hashcat [options] hash_file.txt [word_list_or_mask]