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last — View the last logged in users. More information: <https://manned.org/last>.

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Problem

How to use the last command: View the last logged in users. More information: <https://manned.org/last>.

Solution

last — View the last logged in users. More information: <https://manned.org/last>.

View last login information (e.g., username, terminal, boot time, kernel) of all users as read from /var/log/wtmp:

last

List login information of a specific user:

last {{username}}

Specify how many of the last logins to show:

last {{[-n|--limit]}} {{login_count}}

Print the full date and time for entries and then display the hostname column last to prevent truncation:

last {{[-F|--fulltimes]}} {{[-a|--hostlast]}}

View all logins by a specific user and show the IP address instead of the hostname:

last {{username}} {{[-i|--ip]}}

List information since a specific time and date:

last {{[-s|--since]}} {{-7days}}

View all recorded reboots (i.e., the last logins of the pseudo user "reboot"):

last reboot

Display help:

last {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

View last login information (e.g., username, terminal, boot time, kernel) of all users as read from `/var/log/wtmp`

last

List login information of a specific user

last {{username}}

Specify how many of the last logins to show

last {{[-n|--limit]}} {{login_count}}

Print the full date and time for entries and then display the hostname column last to prevent truncation

last {{[-F|--fulltimes]}} {{[-a|--hostlast]}}

View all logins by a specific user and show the IP address instead of the hostname

last {{username}} {{[-i|--ip]}}

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