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Prompt #

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several = characters.

Solution #

$ ssh bandit9@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
bandit9@bandit.labs.overthewire.org password: UsvVyFSfZZWbi6wgC7dAFyFuR6jQQUhR
bandit9@bandit:~$ ls
data.txt
bandit9@bandit:~$ strings data.txt | grep -E "={2,}"
========== the*2i4
========== password
Z========== is
&========== truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk

References #

Allan. (2017, December 21). Regex character repeats $n$ or more times in line with grep. Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/a/47921068/7148921