#DoNotBeMe and forget john likes equal signs when specifying the wordlist parameter but too polite to criticize you if ya forget.

It actually claims it is reading the list with an ambiguous message. I think that is from it parsing as a hash list, see image for the output when ya forget the equal sign. I feel adequately trolled. I just wasted so much time on a #CTF. I won't make that mistake again...maybe...pretty sure I have many times and never realized it.

Thinking about it that's probably why hashcat seems to work all the time when John doesn't for me....grrrrr!