Level 07 – bandit – overthewire

Level Instructions:

“The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt next to the word millionth”

bandit7@bandit:~$ ls -la
total 4108
drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root       4096 Dec 28  2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 42 root    root       4096 Jul 22 18:42 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root        220 Sep  1  2015 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root       3771 Sep  1  2015 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root        655 Jun 24  2016 .profile
-rw-r-----  1 bandit8 bandit7 4184396 Dec 28  2017 data.txt
bandit7@bandit:~$ cat data.txt | grep millionth
millionth       cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV

By piping the contents of data.txt into grep, we are able to search for specific strings, and filter our output, limited to those particular lines in the text.