Bandit 08 - writeups

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Bandit Level 8 → Level 9

ssh bandit8@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
found password: defqzFQi4mU0wfNbpuspusRoWskaLg1ecc

bandit8@bandit:~$ ls 
data.txt

bandit8@bandit:~$ sort data.txt | uniq -u
cikaokkI91bUIZZPXwwXanal4xvADOGM

Explanation:

• sort data.txt sorts all lines in data.txt alphabetically, grouping identical lines together consecutively.
• | uniq -u pipes the sorted output to uniq, printing only lines that appear exactly once (unique lines, excluding any duplicates).

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