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🕶️ Technique Card: Navigating Linux

Unit 101 – Terminal Tigers 🐯 | Rank: Shadow Recruit

ShadowNet Agency: Recruit Training File – Classified Level 1

🎯 Mission Brief

Before you can complete missions and field operations, you must learn to move silently through the file system. Use these essential terminal commands to explore, locate targets, and escape unnoticed.

Your first mission (Navigating the Shadows) requires locating a secret file hidden deep in the digital jungle.

🔍 Terminal Tools of the Shadow Recruit

🧭 pwd — Print Working Directory

📌 “Know your location. A lost agent is a compromised agent.”

Use pwd to discover where you currently are in the file system.

pwd

🔎 Example Output:

/home/sr-101/Documents/Missions

🛤️ cd — Change Directory

📌 “The quietest path is the one only you know.”

Use cd (change directory) to move between folders. Think of it as walking through a network of hidden corridors.

cd foldername

To go up one level:

cd ..

To go back to your home base:

cd ~

🔎 Example:

cd secrets/level1

🧾 ls — List Contents

📌 “Observe before you act. The shadows hide many things.”

Use ls to view the contents of your current folder.

ls

For more details (like types, sizes, dates), try:

ls -l

🧠 Operative Intel

🔸 Tip 1: If you get lost, run pwd to reorient yourself.
🔸 Tip 2: Use ls before and after every cd to keep your senses sharp.
🔸 Tip 3: Folders are like locked rooms — cd is your key.

🧪 ShadowNet Training Task

Practice your stealth:

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Use pwd to find your location.
  3. Use ls to look around.
  4. Use cd to enter the correct directories.
  5. Try to locate the file: secret-shadow.txt.

🐾 Remember, Tiger:
Real power lies not in force, but in precision.
Master the shadows. Move like smoke. Strike like light.

⬅️ Go to Mission 001: Navigating the Shadows

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