Combination attacks with prefix

[iMoD1998]

Im having troubles using -j '$-' to make words like: hello-world

I belive is the quotes that may be escaping a string and causes this.

Any workaround?

Error during keyspace measure: Command 'hashcat.exe --keyspace --quiet -a1 ..\..\files\Wordlist1.txt ..\..\files\Wordlist2.txt -j '$-'  --hash-type=16800 -w4 -O --backend-ignore-opencl' returned non-zero exit status 4294967295.

..\..\files\Wordlist1.txt: empty file.