Bandit Level 2 to Level 3

Dealing with files with spaces in the file name.

Host name is bandit.labs.overthewire.org 
User: bandit2
password: CV1DtqXWVFXTvM2F0k09SHz0YwRINYA9

Commands used for this level:
cat - used to view contents of a file.
ls - List information about the FILE's (the current directory by default).

Step 1.
 After logging in type ls
 You will see a file named spaces in this filename

 Step 2.
Linux does not handle spaces in file names well so if you do type
cat spaces in this filename, cat will think you are trying to view the contents of file spaces, file in, file this, and file filename and those separate files do not exist.

One of the reasons Linux does not handle spaces in file names is that bash scripting uses spaces as a NULL terminator to break a script at a certain point. It is considered a best practice to not use spaces in filenames in Linux, underscores (_) are generally used in place of spaces. spaces_in_this_filename would be a better way to name this file if you where to create it.

To get around this we need to "hide" the spaces from cat, just like in the Level 1. To do this we simply type a backslash (\) in the filename before each space.

Type cat spaces\ in\ this\ filename.
The contents of the file has the password for level 3 in it.
UmHadQclWmgdLOKQ3YNgjWxGoRMb5luK

Another quick way around typing the full filename out is to use the TAB key. The TAB key in Linux and most command line interperters is used to auto complete the full filename or full command name from only the first few characters being entered.
We could have just done cat s and pressed the TAB key and it would auto complete the filename with backslashes in it for us.
cat spaces\ in\ this\ filename

Using the TAB key only works if the filename has enough distinct characters in it for the system to auto complete the filename. If we had other files in this directory with names like spaces in and spaces, for auto complete to work for our file spaces in this filename we would need to type cat spaces in t then press TAB to auto complete the file we want to cat.