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We're given a text file with a bunch of dih-s, dah-s, and di-s. Looks like Morse Code. Let's download the file so we can work with it from our terminal.
```$ wget https://tamuctf.com/files/cd5fef538fad2500c30c4ea389c50244/flag.txt```
In Morse Code, dih, dit, and di represent a dot. Dah represents a dash. This is a Python script I whipped up to turn this phonetic Morse Code into dots-and-dashes Morse Code.
```python#!/usr/bin/env python3
with open("flag.txt", "r") as f:	for char in f.read().split():		morse = "".join([ "." if "di" in c else "-" for c in char.split("-") ])		print(morse, end=" ")
print()```
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shawnduong/ctf-writeups/master/2019-TAMU/images/-.--1.png)
When we plug it into a [Morse Code translator](https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html), we seem to get back hexadecimal.
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shawnduong/ctf-writeups/master/2019-TAMU/images/-.--2.png)
No problem. We'll just plug it into a [hexadecimal translator](https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-ascii.html).
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shawnduong/ctf-writeups/master/2019-TAMU/images/-.--3.png)