Shell Script Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Shell Script Interview Questions

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Explain about "s" permission bit in a file?

1060

What is the use of a shebang line?

1199

I want to connect to a remote server and execute some commands, how can I achieve this?

1025

I want to monitor a continuously updating log file, what command can be used to most efficiently achieve this?

1353

What are "c" and "b" permission fields of a file?

1027

How will you find the 99th line of a file using only tail and head command?

2539

What is the difference between grep and egrep?

1143

What are the 3 standard streams in linux?

1142

What is a boot block?

1031

How can I send a mail with a compressed file as an attachment?

1041

How can you find out how long the system has been running?

902

How will you print the login names of all users on a system?

971

Given a file find the count of lines containing the word "abc".

1562

What is an inode block?

1058

How will you pass and access arguments to a script in linux?

1158

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

What is meant by dos operating system?

1058

How do I run a powershell script?

1143

What will happen to my current process when I execute a command using exec?

1054

Tell something about the super block in shell scripting?

1035

What is bash command used for?

1075

What is the significance of the shebang line in shell scripting?

1126

What are scripts in psychology?

1069

Which is better perl or shell scripting?

995

Given a file find the count of lines containing the word "abc".

1562

How do I open the shell prompt?

1199

What can scripts do?

1103

What is eval in shell script?

1257

What is echo $shell?

1098

What is echo in shell?

1111

Differentiate between ‘ and ” quotes.

1170

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