Executive Summary

This box was set-up to practice searching and manipulating files.

Technical Details

We are presented with a list of files and then a set of questions that could be answered by any of these files. The files are: 8V2L bny0 c4ZX D8B3 FHl1 oiMO PFbD rmfX SRSq uqyw v2Vb X1Uy And they are located somewhere on the box. So, our first task should be locating each file. We can do that easily with the find command. find / -type f -name file_name 2>/dev/null So, lets break this command down. -type f = only look for files -name = name of the file we are looking for 2>/dev/null send all errors to null so we can read our output easier. Now we could type this out for each file, but that is lame and I am lazy so lets create a little script that cycles through each file and operates this command on each one. Lets create a bash script and put in a for loop. Then we can create a simple http server with python3 -m http.server and transport the script because there isn't a text editor live on the box. We run our script and we get: /etc/8V2L /mnt/c4ZX /mnt/D8B3 /var/FHl1 /opt/oiMO /opt/PFbD /media/rmfX /etc/ssh/SRSq /var/log/uqyw /home/v2Vb /X1Uy nice!! Now we can start answering questions because we know where our files are. Now we run into another issue where we need to run commands on all the files and compare the results. We can modify the script to have the file path in the array and then each command we need. This lets us quickly evaluate the group.