Useful for debugging with gdb: set follow-fork-mode child set detach-on-fork off info inferiors inferior infno Hashcat for the 3rd argument: hashcat -m 0 -a 3 md5_hash.txt \?a\?a\?a\?a\?a\?a LostKey with correct arguments: ./LostKey flag{Th3 _key_1s_in_th3_secret_com p4rtme $(python2 -c "print 'nt_of_your_t00l_sh3d...}'") My zsh complains about zsh: no matches found: ?a?a?a?a?a?a and zsh: parse error near `}' :/