The password for the next level is stored in the only human-readable file in the inhere directory. Tip: if your terminal is messed up, try the “reset” command.
- We want to use the
filecommand to see which files contain ASCII text (human readable), versus non-readable file types (like data, binary, etc.) - Because all of the filenames in the
inheredirectory start with-, we can't refer to them directly.
Combining solutions from the previous Bandit exercises, we can see consolidate both of these goals into one succient command:
file ./-* # Runs the file command on all files in the current directory (./) that start with -.
./-file00: data
./-file01: data
./-file02: data
./-file03: data
./-file04: data
./-file05: data
./-file06: data
./-file07: ASCII text
./-file08: data
./-file09: data
cat ./-file07
koReBOKuIDDepwhWk7jZC0RTdopnAYKh