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user@practice-server:~
user@practice-server:~$ whoami
user
 
user@practice-server:~$ ls -la documents/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user .
drwxr-xr-x 8 user user ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user notes.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user todo.txt
 
user@practice-server:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
/dev/sda1 40G 12G 28G 30%
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0%
 
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