Bandit Walkthrough – Level 7

Level Description

http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit8.shtml

The purpose of this level is to teach you how to search through a file for a given string. The password for bandit8 is hidden in the file data.txt next to the word millionth

Hint

This will require two commands, one to read the contents of the file, and another to search through them and display only what you wish to see. You will need to join these commands using a pipe (|) character.

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This level introduces two new commands, grep and pipe. The pipe character tells the system to take the output of the last command run and use it as the input for the next command. Grep is a command that allows you to search within text for a given string. [$]-> ssh bandit7@bandit.labs.overthewire.org [$]-> HKBPTKQnIay4Fw76bEy8PVxKEDQRKTzs [$]-> cat data.txt \| grep millionth The password for bandit8 is: cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV

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This level introduces two new commands, grep and pipe. The pipe character tells the system to take the output of the last command run and use it as the input for the next command. Grep is a command that allows you to search within text for a given string.

[$]-> ssh bandit7@bandit.labs.overthewire.org 
[$]-> HKBPTKQnIay4Fw76bEy8PVxKEDQRKTzs
[$]-> cat data.txt | grep millionth

The password for bandit8 is: cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV

2 thoughts on “Bandit Walkthrough – Level 7”

No need to use two command.
grep can search inside a file (or several) if you ask it.

“grep millionth data.txt”

Thanks for this blog, by the way :-)
Thanks :-)

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Bandit Walkthrough – Level 7

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