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 Challenges: (ranked roughly from easiest to hardest)
  -  put user in a python shell, have them try to read the flag from a file
- -  2l.sh - read flag from a file using only 2-letter shell commands
- -  approved.pl - read flag from file using only the commands ls, pwd, whoami
- -  patience.c - find the code from a binary executable that will print the solution in 1 year's time
+ -  `2l.sh` - read flag from a file using only 2-letter shell commands
+ -  `approved.pl` - read flag from file using only the commands `ls`, `pwd`, `whoami`
+ -  `patience.c` - find the code from a binary executable that will print the solution in 1 year's time
 
 Make sure there is a different flag for each challenge.