INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS COMMAND LINE - User4 has a lot of files and folders in their Documents folder. The flag can be found within one of them

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I’ve been stuck with this question for days, I’ve tried the tree and the dir /s, the files appear empty

the question is :

User4 has a lot of files and folders in their Documents folder. The flag can be found within one of them.

thanks

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try to filter the flag.txt by the size and you will get it

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I would say to anyone else coming to this thread looking for answers is to consider the options you have for listing all these hidden files/directories and then consider the parameters you can apply to filter out the duplicates/false flags

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Hey bro, so i got the answer on this way:
1: I change from CMD to PS
2 Filter all objects with the .txt extension and concatenate to Sort-Object to filter all files:

PS C:\Users\user4\Documents> Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users\user4\Documents\ -Filter "*.txt" -Recurse -File | Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime

3: Once you got the path you can move to the directory and use “type” or “more” to read the file

type flag.txt

I wish i can help because i was like 30min finding the way.
:slight_smile:

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Thank you so much for this. I literally spent the better part of a half hour in cmd piping my results into find only to have it keep producing a list of the recursive files from the where command. I was literally about to bounce in to PS to figure this out. You script saved me a hot minute thank you.