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I use AWS console to look for ebs backed : as below enter image description here

then I use ec2 command line 

ec2-run-instances ami-23b6534a -k key_hw3 --availability-zone us-east-1a

then try to connect to it using cygwin ( i'm on windows ) , below .. usually when I do 

#ls

it would give me a list of everything ..

what am I do it wrong here ? like .. enter image description here

or how can I find ami that would give me something normal ..like below I was able to do command "ls" and it would give me the directory but the above instance did nothing.. so Im a bit confused.

enter image description here

What does it mean

-bash-4.0#

vs

-root@ip-10.284-8-50#

I'm new to the cloud , and never really use linux before any explanation would help.

Thanks

JPC
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What you are seeing is perfectly normal behaviour. You logged in into your instance and what you are seeing is the "prompt" where you can enter commands. The prompt is configurable, so it can show different things on different machines. ls does not show anything because there is probably no file in the directory. Try to have a look at various linux tutorials to get a better understanding of what is happening there.

j0nes
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  • Just a clarification, there are no visible files in the directory. `ls -a` will show all files including hidden files. – datasage Oct 04 '13 at 13:00