Aircrack-ng Can't Read File or Crunch's Standard Output (Fedora)

Question

Okay, so I am trying to pipe crunch to aircrack-ng, and I get the following error:

[root@x IN /x/x]$ crunch 8 8 -t @o@@@@@@ | aircrack-ng - -b 94:0E:6B:A5:F3:32 Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 72286291584 bytes 68937 MB 67 GB 0 TB 0 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 8031810176 Opening - Unsupported file format (not a pcap or IVs file). [root@x IN /x/x]$
So as you can see, crunch works fine. I even tried it without the pipe, and it worked perfectly, but aircrack doesn't seem to be able to read it. I have eliminated the problem to the format of crunch's output, but still tell any other possible reasons for the error.

If I give aircrack a file to read from I get this error:

[root@x IN /x/x]$ sudo crunch 8 8 -t @o@@@@@@ -d 5 | aircrack-ng -w - mifipass.cap -b 94:0E:6B:A5:F3:32 mifipass2 Opening mifipass.cap read(file header) failed: Success Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 72286273800 bytes 68937 MB 67 GB 0 TB 0 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 8031808200 [root@x IN /x/x]$ This is the most I could find on the subject: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/124580/what-does-read-swap-header-failed-success-mean

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Edit: So, I found out part of the problem: I was using an n-dash instead of an m-dash:
[root@x IN /x/x]$ crunch 8 8 -t @o@@@@@@ | aircrack-ng - -b 94:0E:6B:A5:F3:32 should be:
[root@x IN /x/x]$ crunch 8 8 -t @o@@@@@@ | aircrack-ng – -b 94:0E:6B:A5

But now I have this error:

[root@x IN /x/x]$ crunch 8 8 | aircrack-ng -b 94:0E:6B:A5:F3:32 -w – mifipass.cap Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 1879443581184 bytes 1792377 MB 1750 GB 1 TB 0 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 208827064576 ERROR: Opening dictionary – failed (No such file or directory) ERROR: Opening dictionary – failed (No such file or directory) Opening mifipass.cap read(file header) failed: Success [root@x IN /x/x]$ :F3:32`

Answer 1

Okay, I found the problem: I wasn't using a .cap file. When you want to crack a wireless key with aircrack-ng, what you have to do is first capture enough encrypted packets (until you get a 4-way handshake) using airodump-ng. After you did this and saved the output to a file, you must use this file with aircrack-ng; as this is the file aircrack-ng will use to break the encryption (rather than trying the password on the actual WiFi network. Here is what to do:

$ airodump-ng <wireless-interface>
$ airodump-ng -c <channel> --bssid <mac:address> -w <name-for-new-file> <wireless-interface>
$ crunch <options> | aircrack-ng -w <file.cap> - --bssid <mac:address>

What I did here is simple:
1-A general scan of available networks. You must find your network and copy the bssid and channel.
2-Captured a 4-way handshake for my wireless network and saved it into a file without an extension
3-Used the file with the .cap extension with aircrack-ng while telling it to read from standard output. (airodump added the extension to the file automatically)