Linux Fundamentals Part 1 : TryHackMe

Task 2 A Bit of Background on Linux

Research: What year was the first release of a Linux operating system?

Ans: 1991

Task 4 Running Your First few Commands

echo : Output any text that we provide
whoami : Find out what user we’re currently logged in as!

If we wanted to output the text “TryHackMe”, what would our command be?

Ans: echo TryHackMe

What is the username of who you’re logged in as on your deployed Linux machine?

Ans: tryhackme

Task 5 Interacting With the Filesystem!

On the Linux machine that you deploy, how many folders are there?

Ans: 4

Which directory contains a file?

Ans: folder4

What is the contents of this file?

Ans: Hello world

Use the cd command to navigate to this file and find out the new current working directory. What is the path?

Ans: /home/tryhackme/folder4

Task 6 Searching for Files

Use grep on “access.log” to find the flag that has a prefix of “THM”. What is the flag?

Ans: THM{ACCESS}

Task 7 An Introduction to Shell Operators

If we wanted to run a command in the background, what operator would we want to use?

Ans: &

If I wanted to replace the contents of a file named “passwords” with the word “password123”, what would my command be?

Ans: echo password123 > passwords

Now if I wanted to add “tryhackme” to this file named “passwords” but also keep “passwords123”, what would my command be

Ans: echo tryhackme >> passwords

Now use the deployed Linux machine to put these into practice

Ans: No answer needed.