Hashcat Compressed Wordlist Page

Hashcat can read from stdin (Standard Input). This is the golden key. Unix systems have a beautiful symbiotic relationship with gzip and zcat (or gzcat on macOS). Since Hashcat reads line by line from stdin, you can decompress on the fly.

# The golden pattern for all compressed wordlists: [decompressor] [archive] -so | hashcat -a 0 -m [hash_type] [hashes.txt] Now go forth, compress intelligently, and crack efficiently. hashcat compressed wordlist

bsdtar -xOf mylist.zip | hashcat -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d Hashcat can read from stdin (Standard Input)