How to view a file on PuTTY? [closed]

Question

I opened a file in PuTTY and I need the file .flag, how do I open it?

I have tried

vi index.flag

and

cp index.flag

Answer 1

To list all files in a directory with their permissions run

ls -la

Make sure your user have at least read permission on the file you need to open

open the file using vi editor (assuming the file you want to open is called .flag)

vi .flag

you can also use the cat command to just to view the contents of a file

cat .flag