Bandit Level 1 | Akash Trehan

Bandit Level 1

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Level Goal:

The password for the next level is stored in a file called - located in the home directory

Commands you may need to solve this level

ls, cd, cat, file, du, find

Helpful Reading Material

Google Search for “dashed filename” Advanced Bash-scripting Guide - Chapter 3 - Special Characters

Write-up

This was a bit tricky. The filename was -. A simple cat - didn’t work. This is becuase cat interprets - as stdin which means that instead of a file you give it an input from the terminal.

Thus I used cat ~/- to read from the file.

Level 2 password: CV1DtqXWVFXTvM2F0k09SHz0YwRINYA9




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