The password for the next level is stored in the only human-readable file in the inhere directory. Tip: if your terminal is messed up, try the reset command.
I moved into the inhere directory and found a bunch of files named starting with a dash, like -file01, -file02, and so on. Most of these contain binary “garbage” that looks like a mess of symbols on the screen.
To find the right one without opening every single file manually, I used a wildcard * along with the cat command to peak into them. Since I knew from my previous notes that files starting with a dash need a ./ prefix, I ran:
$ cd inhere
$ cat ./-file*
Among the wall of weird symbols, one line stood out—it was a clean string of letters and numbers. That was our password!
[SPOILER]
* allowed me to process all files in the directory with a single command.cat here, I also discovered that the file command is a professional way to check a file’s type (e.g., “ASCII text”) before opening it.