When piping a huge compressed file (e.g., 50 GB unpacked), the pipe buffer may cause Hashcat to load too many lines at once. Fix: Use --stdin-timeout-abort=0 or limit line length with -O (optimized kernel).
If you encounter a format Hashcat doesn't natively support (like hashcat compressed wordlist
For unsupported formats like .7z or .xz , you can use tools like zcat or xzcat to pipe the decompressed output directly into Hashcat: When piping a huge compressed file (e