you can't see me

you can't see me

Points: 200

Category

General Skills

Question

'...reading transmission... Y.O.U. .C.A.N.'.T. .S.E.E. .M.E. ...transmission ended...' Maybe something lies in /problems/you-can-t-see-me_3_1a39ec6c80b3f3a18610074f68acfe69.

Hint

What command can see/read files?

What's in the manual page of ls?

Solution

Doing ls -la, you can see the file with the period character as its name. As this character has special meaning when it comes to the linux file systems, when you try to cat it normally, you get the error saying that the period character is a directory.

Therefore you, can try using the cat command by listing all files using the * special character.

Do cat .* to get the flag.

Flag

picoCTF{j0hn_c3na_paparapaaaaaaa_paparapaaaaaa_cf5156ef}