Command Line Basics

1. The command prompt provides very little information upon login to the system. Use the following command to determine your current working directory:

pwd

2. Change your working directory to your user's home directory.

cd ~

1. Verify that you are the only user logged in to the system with the following command:

w

1. Determine which users last logged in to the system, as well as the last time the system was booted by running the following command:

last

1. Create a record of your findings by writing the output of the previous commands into a new file in the cloud_user home directory. From the /home/cloud_user directory, run the following commands:

w > log.txt
last >> log.txt

1. View the contents of the file you created using the following command:

cat log.txt