😮Case 1: Exposed Files

In the movies, you might often see "hackers" pounding away at a keyboard on a complicated-looking terminal... Learn about what they actually do and how to navigate a command line!

Our intelligence agency showed us two filesystems that seems to be a hacker organization disguised as a fake company. Could you use your Linux command skills to sort through the filesystem and find the secret messages?

Tips and Tricks:

Basic Commands

ls
# Lists files
ls -a
# Lists HIDDEN files
cd ./folder
# Go into the folder called "folder"
cd ..
# Goes BACK a directory
cat hello.txt
# Prints out contents of "hello.txt"

Finding Specific Phrases

grep "what you are looking for" *
# search in all files in current directory
grep -i "what you are looking for" *
# search in entire directory (not case sensitive)
grep -r "what you are looking for" *
# search in entire directory (go through each folder as well) ash

PRO TIP: Use the Tab key on your keyboard to autocomplete filenames and folder names.

Level 1

There is a secret hidden in this filesystem that we believe is crucial for us to know in order to take down this hacker organization. Use the console provided by Repl. Can you help us find that secret?

Level 2

Woah! There seems to be an uncountable number of folders in this filesystem. In this case, it's incredibly inefficient to sort through each one of them manually. We know that a keyword to find the secret message is "code". Can you use this information and the command "grep" to find the secret?