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		saagarjha on Dec 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Become Shell Literate I’m not sure why you think CTFs/security has an extra focus on the command line? Most of the security people I know spend their days staring into IDA…

Ekaros on Dec 13, 2020 [–]

As security person I run stuff in command line as many tools are there and they really are mostly scripts. I don't really need to do much shell magic to do stuff. If I actually need something special I will write a python script.

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