Cracking hash's with john the ripper

So lets crack some hash’s with john the ripper on Kali  Linux lets start by get the hash im using sha256  so lets log up is site  https://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator

 

 

now we are going to save the hash to a text file  open terminal and type leafpad hashsha256.txt

 

 

now lets make a word list with crunch

crunch 4 12 abcdefghijklnmopqrstuvwxyz -o wordlist.txt

 

let it finish and type

john –fork=2 –wordlist wordlist.txt –format=raw-sha256 hashsha256.txt