DO_NOT_CHEAT-THE CHALLENGE

HI EVERYONE !!

                 In this blog I'm going to share my experience about completing a challenge which was given to us in a workshop being conducted in our college.It was fun and interesting to complete the task.The challenge was designed to be done in Ubuntu and we used Terminal and its Command lines to complete it.The main thing and the funny part of the challenge is that we had no mouse and had to work only with keyboard.The THEME of the challenge is that a file will be given to us and many clues will be hidden inside that file.When we find a clue it paves way for the other one and every clue will contain the name of a super hero and if we get all the clues and the name of the super hero right,then we will be declared as winner.I will share the link for the root file so that you people can also try it out.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0AhkRHuJ56XUlNNMzNOVUhxYkw0N1JZUGxkMWl5NlZpdjVj


P.S:We were allowed to surf web to complete the challenge and we completed it with the help of Google.



Clue 1:

        The file which was given to us was in TAR.GZ form and were asked to decompress and extract the file to continue further.The command which I used to decompress and extract them is tar xvzf DO_NOT_CHEAT.tar.gz . Then by using cd command I entered into the folder DO_NOT_CHEAT.There were few folders there and then there were few hidden files also which can be exposed through the command ls -a and I used the command gedit and found the next clue and the super hero.

Clue 2:

            The second clue said that the next clue lies in the richest temple in India.The richest temple in India is in TRIVENDREM. The same command ls -a is used to find the hidden file .readme2 and it gives the next clue and the name of the next super hero.

Clue 3:

            The next clue says that the next hint is with BALLALLADEVA and says that he is a great mathematician .The mathematician is RAMANUJAM and his number is 1729. The next hidden file .readme3 is found in BALLALLADEVA and it is opened using the command gedit . It contains many random stuffs and the number 1729 is searched using the command grep 1729 .readme3 . That command gives the text in between number 1729. It gives the next hint .

         

Clue 4:

           The next clue says that the next hint is inside a big fruit and it is little tricky to open.As a guess the big fruit might be Water Melon. The name of the file is .readme 4 and it is tricky because  it will not open if we use the command gedit .readme 4 as it contains a space in between, so it must be typed inside double quotes as gedit ".readme 4" . This file gives the next hint and the name if the next super hero.

Clue 5:

           The next clue tells that the other clue is with WONDER_WOMEN and that it is in the file of size 75 bytes.In the folder WONDER_WOMEN there are 10 files and their size is found using the command ls -alt . The file .readme5i is of the size 75 bytes and it gives the next clue and the name of the next super hero.

          

Clue 6:

           The hint says that the next clue is in the the file .readme6me . The file is searched using the command sudo updatedb and finally by using the command locate .readme6me the file is found.When that file is opened it gives the next  clue and the name of the next super hero.

Clue 7:

            The ablove clue says that the next clue is with the mother of dragons and the mother dragons is TARGARION . It is said that we don't have permission to access the file. The file can be opened by the command chmod777 .readme7 and the purpose of chmod777 is that it gives permission for us to access the file.But here as I'm the admin of my laptop is a able to access it without using the command chmod777. Finally the file gives the last name and it is the end of the challenge .

To be honest the game was really interesting and it made us think a lot and the main thing is that we learnt lot of new things.I thank the seniors of the club for creating such a task.

As I am new to blog writing I don't know how exactly I presented the content and I thank everyone for reading this.