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Oh, right, my bad. But fret not there's
last -n1for that.I don't believe that does the same thing either. What if I lock my computer, sleep it, and step away for the day? I haven't logged out, but my interactive session has ended.
Last shows how long the last user logged in has been logged in. So if your system routinely has multiple users logged in, this may not be a useful metric.