Level 9 - Find password in a data.txt which is the only unique line (Misc)

Description

The goal of this level is to get the password for the next level stored in data.txt which is the only unique line.

Tech used

• cat
• sort
• uniq

Solutions

Run ssh bandit8@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220. Password is dfwvzFQi4mU0wfNbFOe9RoWskMLg7eEc

• Show file contents, sort, and print unique line. The bit not covered in the description is that the contents have to be sorted.
  • Run cat data.txt | sort | uniq -u

Notes

• -u implies only print unique lines
• uniq manual page