Verify the installation

Make sure that your credentials are set up correctly in the openrc.sh file and source it:

$ source openrc.sh

Run the following swift command:

$ swift stat
Account: AUTH_11b9758b7049476d9b48f7a91ea11493
Containers: 0
   Objects: 0
     Bytes: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
X-Timestamp: 1381434243.83760
X-Trans-Id: txdcdd594565214fb4a2d33-0052570383
X-Put-Timestamp: 1381434243.83760

Run the following swift commands to upload files to a container. Create the test.txt and test2.txt test files locally if needed.

$ swift upload myfiles test.txt
$ swift upload myfiles test2.txt

Run the following swift command to download all files from the myfiles container:

$ swift download myfiles
test2.txt [headers 0.267s, total 0.267s, 0.000s MB/s]
test.txt [headers 0.271s, total 0.271s, 0.000s MB/s]