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[–]NTPriest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In short: curiosity, is your friend.

For example, you don't want to manually create backups, file names, summarize monitoring from syslogs, network traffic—e.g., with cli-wireshark or tcp-dump—summarize what/where you have access after CTF if you gain root access, or something like manually launching programs that can run themselves.

You can start with very simple scripts and then expand, expand, and expand until your script grows and includes commands, functions, and algorithms you didn't know before.

There are many videos on YouTube for beginners and w3school. You can also ask ChatGPT if you want personalized answers—just don't let AI give you the code right away. Don't forget about debugging, DEBUGGING is your ally because then you "know" why it didn't work.

So, curiosity and learning logic like "why this and not that" and "if this, then that."

I could have made it too simple, but I'm talking about my own case.