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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 20:34:23 -0700
From: Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Should I see special characters in status updates?

Or, this could be made a bit easier by use of a virtual machine running linux. VMWare, Parallels, and many others are supported in windows and from there, running JTR after installing the required packages is easy peasy. I do so on a windows machine here and I haven’t run into the problems appear to be happening in this case.

-Eric


> On Oct 6, 2022, at 3:45 AM, magnum <magnumripper@...hmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2022-10-05 07:32, Ashildan V wrote:
>> I tried the commands you shared, but none of them worked.
>> When I tried (exactly as I've typed it below):
> 
>> I got the responses:
>> *'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
>> program or batch file*
>> *'head' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
>> program or batch file*
> 
>> I'm running John on a Windows machine. Could that be the problem?
> 
> Yes. You should probably run them under a Cygwin shell and not a Windows' command window. Or learn Windows commands such as (IIRC) "findstr" that could be used in place of "grep".
> 
> However, you don't need to run those example at all - simply trust us that uppercase (and specials) *will* be used, just not very early in the process.
> 
> magnum
> 

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