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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:02:12 +0200
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Extract the cracked pass from John.pot

On 04/19/2012 10:07 PM, newangels newangels wrote:
> new-host:run xxxx$ cut -d: -f2- john.pot > passTest.txt
> cut: john.pot: Illegal byte sequence

Looks like cut is complaining because john.pot contains byte sequences
which are not valid for the current locale setting.
E.g., you use utf-8, but john.pot contains non-ascii characters in a
single-byte representation.

Try

LC_ALL=C cut -d: -f2- john.pot > passTest.txt


Frank


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