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Not commandsĪh, let me speak for my love of pipes. I’ve just about got the ability to find a literal string in a given input, and can display the context around the found string, but that’s it. It certainly works for that, but I’m not exactly stretching its abilities.
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I feel kind of like I bought a several thousand dollar gaming PC to play solitaire. Grep is one of those that I know I’m using the bare minimum of its abilities, but I’m okay with that.
Hunting for helpful info in the man page for this got me back into using grep to hunt through man pages though, so it’s not all bad (more on how I do that later).
I also discovered it doesn’t actually read the correct size of files, which, I have to say, is a bit aggravating, since it has a filter for size. It has a lot of bells and whistles that I imagine are useful to lots of people, but as a noob it’s a bit much to take in all at once. Looking through the man page, I had some “reading grep’s man page” flashbacks. I assume it determines type by looking at the beginning of the file stored on disk and comparing it with the different file types it knows of, but it may be more clever than that.įind is something I haven’t used too much either. Definitely nifty, and I’m curious to take a look at some more info on how it does that.
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Since I spend most my time in the Windows world, I’m used to always giving a file extension that denotes the type. It identifies the file type of a given file. Slightly more interestingįile is actually a command I haven’t used all that much. You open a file, edit it, save it, and exit. You don’t have to switch into writing mode, don’t have to memorize hotkey combos. Nano has all the commands you need to know displayed at the bottom of the screen.
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And figuring out how to exit vim can be a puzzle level for a wargame all by itself sometimes. As the joke goes, emacs is a great operating system but a terrible text editor. It’s my personal go-to for doing simple text editing in a console, far and away above vim or emacs. Bash commands - my opinions The bare-bones (aka dealing with the file system)Ĭd, pwd, ls, mkdir, rm, rmdir, touch, cat, nanoĪ lot of these commands are pretty standard, and the first ones that you’ll learn on any “command line intro” sort of articles/classes. I’ve collected some of the ones that I used, and added some comments and opinions about what I discovered about them while trying to solve these puzzles. A lot of the time they give you more commands than you strictly need, but they’re all useful commands, so researching them isn’t going to hurt anyone. OverTheWire has a set of hints for how to get the next password, as well as some bash commands that may prove helpful for this particular level.
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For each username, you have a password, and your goal is to get the password for the next username (so you’re logged in as bandit1, and trying to get the password for bandit2). The basic setup is simple: you remote into a computer using ssh and a specified username, which has the current level’s number on it (e.g. Which means a wide variety of bash commands that will be used in other wargames (I assume. It will teach the basics needed to be able to play other wargames The Bandit wargame is aimed at absolute beginners. The one I worked on was “Bandit”, which in their own words again: OverTheWire has a collection of “wargames”, long running sets of puzzles that are, in their own words:Ĭan help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.Įach set has a specific name, and have a specific set of security concepts they’re designed to teach. Check out the WeChall profile page if you’re curious. I’ve gotten up to level 24 so far, though when I post this, I may have gotten farther. I’ve also done this wargame before, but didn’t store any info or have any proof of it, so I figured it made sense to try again, this time with better notes. Since there are multiple ways to solve most of these challenges, and they give suggestions of bash commands to look into for each challenge, I figure this isn’t going to be giving away any state secrets.
Here’s the link if you’re curious:Īs part of playing this wargame, I did brush up on some old knowledge and got some new knowledge about bash, so I thought I’d share some of the specifics that I’d discovered. I created a profile there and linked it to track my progress. However, they do connect with a site called WeChall that lets you track what solutions you’ve solved.
They request you don’t do a write up for the solutions to the problems, so I wont. On the 25th I had some time off planned, and so decided to brush up on my bash skills using the wargame Bandit from OverTheWire (
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