Information
Points | Category | Level |
---|---|---|
75 | General Skills | Very Easy |
Challenge
Can you find the flag in file? This would be really obnoxious to look through by hand, see if you can find a faster way. You can also find the file in /problems/grep-1_0_c0c0c16438cdbee39591397e16389f59 on the shell server.
Hint
grep tutorial
Solution
Let’s download the file, it’s full in garbage. The name of the challenge is grep so let’s use it.
open terminal -> move to the folder of the file (by cd) -*> grep “picoCTF” file
- grep - the grep command search a pattern in the text
- command syntax:
grep “PATTERN” FILENAME
- command syntax:
Flag
picoCTF{grep_and_you_will_find_52e63a9f}