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What is the path of your account? In other words, what subdirectories does one have to traverse to reach your account.
What other subdirectories are at the same height as yours in the directory tree?
You will notice that all user accounts are in a major directory called Users. The old standard for users on a linux system is to have the users in a directory called home in the root directory.
You will notice that some user accounts still exist in home. Which are they?

With Linux, the name of the printers supported are listed in a file called /etc/printcap. Look at its contents.
Figure out a way to get only the entries from this file that represent printers that are in Ford Hall.

Open a browser window and load up the following URL: http://maven.smith.edu/~hadoop/log.txt
Notice that it is a long log of the output of a research program I have been running recently. It is very long and contains a lot of information: some useful, some not.
You are going to get a copy of this file into your account. Instead of copying and pasting the text into a file, you are going to use a useful utility called wget. Wget is a Linux utility that allows you to grab Web pages from Web sites, without using a browser.

Try it:

 wget http://maven.smith.edu/~hadoop/log.txt