I am solving overthewire bandit. I looked solutions but there is no explanation about it. For example when i use find . find it on bandit 5->6
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ find . -type f -readable ! -executable -size 1033c **./maybehere07/.file2** bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ cat ./maybehere07/.file2 **DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7** I used find . on bandit6->7 i didn't get any output in the solution they solved with find /
bandit6@bandit:~$ find / -user bandit7 -group bandit6 -size 33c 2>/dev/null /var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password both of are ASCII Text so what is the difference
2 Answers
If you are talking about the linux find command:
find . [other expressions] means you want to find files based on your current directory.
While find / [other expressions] means you want to find files based on the root (/) directory.
The path parameter tells find where to search. If you use ., it will only search in the subdirectories of the current directory, while / means the root directory, i.e. it will search everywhere. And, indeed, as you can see, /var/lib/dpkg/info/ is not a subdirectory of ~/inhere.
