miscmedium
Broken Shell
hackthebox
Task: Escape a restricted bash shell that only allows numbers and special characters (no letters). Solution: Use bash parameter expansion ${var:offset:length} to extract letters from $0 variable and construct commands like 'ls' and 'nl'.
$ ls tags/ techniques/
bash_parameter_expansionglob_patternscharacter_extraction
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