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Bandit 18 Objectives There are 2 files in the homedirectory:  passwords.old and passwords.new . The password for the next level is in  passwords.new  and is the only line that has been changed between  passwords.old and passwords.new NOTE: if you have solved this level and see ‘Byebye!’ when trying to log into bandit18, this is related to the next level, bandit19 Solution let's grep with some switches - F ,   -- fixed - strings  Interpret  PATTERN as a list of fixed strings ,  separated by newlines ,  any of which is to be matched .   - x ,   -- line - regexp  Select  only those matches that exactly match the whole line . - f  ,   -- file = FILE  Obtain  patterns from FILE ,  one per line .   The  empty file contains zero patterns ,  and therefore matches nothing . -v ,   -- invert - match  Invert  the sense of matching ,  to select non - matching lines . bandit17@bandit:~$ grep -Fxvf passwords.old passwords.new kfBf3eYk5BPBRzwjqutbbfE887SVc5Yd now in python &g