Bandit Level 8 → Level 9
OverTheWire Bandit Level 8 → Level 9
ssh bandit8@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt and is the only line of text that occurs only once
Similar to the last level, this level utilizes the file data.txt however this time it has a bunch of decoy passwords instead, and we are looking for the only unique one.
The first idea you might have is to use the command cat data.txt | uniq -u, but this will not work as it sees every line as its own unique line. What we need to do first is sort them so that uniq can properly work it out.
The sort command does exactly that, it sorts the content so that all like lines are in next to each other. So we can then pipe that into the uniq and get our answer.
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bandit8@bandit:~$ sort data.txt | uniq -u
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