Disposable Lab Copies

A disposable lab is a copy that can be deleted and rebuilt from trusted source files.

rm -rf ~/dedsec-academy/working/session-01
mkdir -p ~/dedsec-academy/working/session-01
cp -a ~/dedsec-academy/source/. ~/dedsec-academy/working/session-01/
find ~/dedsec-academy/working/session-01 -type f -print

Use cases

• Testing a parser against supplied logs.
• Reviewing code without touching the original.
• Starting a loopback-only web service.
• Repeating a lab after a failed attempt.