Tangle Coalbox: Lethal ForensicElfication
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The Elf's Request
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The Terminal Riddle
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The Solution
A quick listing shows that there is a file called poem.txt
in a hidden file called .secrets/her/
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Looking at the poem, it appears that the name of the subject of the poem has been replaced with “NEVERMORE”
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The .viminfo
file in the home directory provides a list of previous commands. It could give us some clues.
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by looking at .viminfo, I see %s/Elinore/NEVERMORE/g
is a global replace of the word Elinore with NEVERMORE>
The subject of the poem is Elinore
Terminal Success
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The Hint
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