Output progress over time in hashcat - passwords

Question

I am analysing the amount of hashes cracked over a set period of time.
I am looking to save the current status of the crack every 10 seconds.
'''
Recovered........: 132659/296112 (44.80%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Recovered/Time...: CUR:3636,N/A,N/A AVG:141703,8502198,204052756 (Min,Hour,Day)
Progress.........: 15287255040/768199139595 (1.99%)
'''
I want these 3 lines of the status saved every 10 seconds or so.
Is it possible to do this within hashcat or will I need to make a separate script in python?

Answer 1

Getting the status every 10 seconds
You can enable printing the status with --status and you can set the status to prints every X seconds with --status-timer X. You can see these command line arguments on the hashcat options wiki page, or hashcat --help.
Example: hashcat -a 0 -m 0 example.hash example.dict --status --status-timer 10
Saving all the statuses
I'm assuming that you just want to save everything that gets printed by hashcat while it's running. An easy way to do this is just copy everything from stdout into a file. This is a popular s/o question, so we'll just use this answer.
To be safe, let's use -a which appends to the file, so we don't accidentally overwrite previous runs. All we need to do is put | tee -a file.txt after our hashcat call.
Solution
Give this a shot, it should save all the statuses (and everything else from stdout) to output.txt:
hashcat -a A -m M hashes.txt dictionary.txt --status --status-timer 10 | tee -a output.txt
Just swap out A, M, hashes.txt, and dictionary.txt with the arguments you're using.
If you need help getting just the "Recovered" lines from this output file, or if this doesn't work on your computer (I'm on OSX), let me know in a comment.

Answer 2

In addition to Andrew Zick's answer, note that for machine-readable status, hashcat has native support for machine-readable output - see the --machine-readable option. This produces tab-separated output like so:
STATUS 5 SPEED 111792 1000 EXEC_RUNTIME 0.007486 CURKU 1 PROGRESS 62 62 RECHASH 0 1 RECSALT 0 1 REJECTED 0 UTIL -1
STATUS 5 SPEED 14247323 1000 EXEC_RUNTIME 0.038953 CURKU 36 PROGRESS 2232 2232 RECHASH 0 1 RECSALT 0 1 REJECTED 0 UTIL -1
STATUS 5 SPEED 36929864 1000 EXEC_RUNTIME 1.661804 CURKU 1296 PROGRESS 80352 80352 RECHASH 0 1 RECSALT 0 1 REJECTED 0 UTIL -1
STATUS 5 SPEED 66538858 1000 EXEC_RUNTIME 3.237319 CURKU 46656 PROGRESS 28926722892672 RECHASH 0 1 RECSALT 0 1 REJECTED 0 UTIL -1
STATUS 5 SPEED 63562975 1000 EXEC_RUNTIME 3.480536 CURKU 1679616 PROGRESS 104136192 104136192 RECHASH 0 1 RECSALT 0 1 REJECTED 0 UTIL -1
... which is exactly what tools like Hashtopolis use to provide a front-end to hashcat output.
For machine-readable output, the options --outfile, and --outfile-format are available. See the Format section of the output of hashcat --help for the options to --outfile-format:
- [ Outfile Formats ] -
# | Format
===+========
1 | hash[:salt]
2 | plain
3 | hex_plain
4 | crack_pos
5 | timestamp absolute
6 | timestamp relative