I finally used ls -al to see all the subdirectories, etc. and saw that the filename we are supposed to cat in this challenge is '. .the flag.txt'. However, the challenge says the full path name is '.../ /. /the flag.txt' so the second . in the filename is replaced with a /. That made the challenge WAAAAY harder than it should have been.
I finally used ls -al to see all the subdirectories, etc. and saw that the filename we are supposed to cat in this challenge is '. .the flag.txt'. However, the challenge says the full path name is '.../ /. /the flag.txt' so the second . in the filename is replaced with a /. That made the challenge WAAAAY harder than it should have been.
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