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Practical Web Penetration Testing
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Practical Web Penetration Testing

by Gus Khawaja
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
7h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Handling the filesystem in Kali

I could write a whole book for this section, but I will do my best to show you the commands that you're going to need in your arsenal as a penetration tester.

Before I start listing all of the commands, I would like to share a unique command-line utility that you'll need to master before starting with any of the utilities in this chapter. You can probably guess it; it's called the Help switch! This option will give you a handful of information regarding the command that you are going to execute.

For example, if you want to list the contents of a directory and you're not sure of the options for the command, all you need to do is append the --help switch, and you can visualize all of the possible functionalities ...

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