Bandit Level 1 → Level 2

Goal: Find the password for the next level.

🔍 Objective:

“The password for the next level is stored in a file called -. It is in the home directory.”

After Googling how to read files starting with -

Serverfault

I found that ./ should work so lets try it.

bandit1@bandit:~$ ls
-
bandit1@bandit:~$ cat ./-
263JGJPfgU6LtdEvgfWU1XP5yac29mFx

TaaaaDaaaa!

Why this works?:

• Simply doing cat - tells cat to read from standard input (stdin), not read a file named -.
• using ./ explicitly refers to the file named - in the current working directory.
• another method that worked for me was cat -- -