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OverTheWire Bandit Level 7 → 8 Walkthrough

Extracting a password next to the word 'millionth' with grep

By Akash Trehan · · 1 min read · Wargame
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OverTheWire Bandit Level 7 → 8 Walkthrough

Level goal: The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt next to the word millionth

Commands you may need: grep, sort, uniq, strings, base64, tr, tar, gzip, bzip2, xxd

Helpful reading: None

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Another simple use of grep command and piping | operator.

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cat data.txt | grep millionth

This gives the password.

Level 8 password: cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV