The Complete Metasploit Guide

Reading from a channel

Meterpreter interacts with the target through numerous channels. Carrying out post-exploitation, we may be required 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. We can read a channel by issuing channel -r [channel-id]. The channel subsystem allows for reading, listing, and writing through all the logical channels that exist as communication sub-channels through the Meterpreter shell.