Over The Wire Notes

Question 1

Level 0

Answer 1

ssh bandit0@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

Question 2

0 to 1

Answer 2

ls to list files
Display contents of file readme wit Cat command.

Shift+ CTRL V & C to copy & paste in linux command prompt

Question 3

1 to 2

Answer 3

‘cat -‘ will not work
cat ./ -
./ means in current directory

Question 4

2 to 3

Answer 4

cat spaces/in/this/file/name

cat will think there is 4 different files without this expression.

Question 5

3 to 4

Answer 5

cd command to go into inhere
ls -a (shows files that are hidden)
hidden files have ‘.’ in the beginning of them.
cat .hidden reveals contents.

Question 6

5 to 6

Answer 6

cd inhere/
ls
file ./-file*
(* is wild card, any file with dash)

Question 7

6 to 7

Answer 7

ls
cd inhere/
find ./ -size 1033c
cat maybehere07/.file2

Question 8

8 to 9

Answer 8

ls
find / -size 33c -user bandit7 -group bandit6
(start it at the begging of the file system)
cat /var/lib… and so forth

Question 9

10 to 11

Answer 9

ls
cat data.txt
cat data.txt | grep -i millionth

Question 10

8 to 9

Answer 10

sort data.txt | uniq -u

uniq -u only line in the file that is not repeated, or Unique

Question 11

9 to 10

Answer 11

ls
cat data.txt
strings data.txt | grep ‘=’