**Level Information** > [!important] The password for the next level is stored in the file **data.txt** in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several ‘=’ characters. > > > > **Commands you may need to solve this level:** > > - grep, sort, uniq, strings, base64, tr, tar, gzip, bzip2, xxd As per the **man page**, the `strings` command print the sequences of printable characters in files if there are least 4 characters in a row. Combining `strings` command with the `grep` command to locate our password which is next to some `==`. Full command: ```Bash strings data.txt | grep "==" ``` ![[Level 09 - 10.png]]