Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Reading from a channel

Carrying out post exploitation, we may require to list and read from a particular channel. We can do this by issuing the channel command as follows:

In the preceding screenshot, we listed all the available channels by issuing the channel -l command, and using the channel ID, we can read a channel by issuing channel -r [channel-id]. The channel subsystem allows reading, listing, and writing through all the logical channels that existed as a communication sub-channel through the meterpreter shell.