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using John the Ripper to recover RAR password

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Mar 15, 20267633 views
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Problem

Testing John the Ripper in Mac OS X as a RAR password recovery solution, but xargs gives me an error: But when I add '-0' to xargs to deal with the quote, I get another xargs error: Which I suppose is because the '-0' is preventing xargs from using newlines as delimiters, which is creating the spac…

Error Output

john --incremental:all --stdout | xargs -I jtr unrar e -pjtr -inul test2.rar | grep 100%
xargs: unterminated quote

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Fix for: using John the Ripper to recover RAR password

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I would probably do something like this instead: Replace rar options, etc. as you like. This way the command only runs until it successfully unpacks the file and you don't have to grep for something. is a shell variable containing the return code of…

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