Shell Script Interview Questions
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what does "kill -9" and "kill -1" do

Amazon,

2 7892

what is the difference between cmp and diff commands

Amazon, CTS,

2 7912

how to find weblogic version through linux cammand

L&T,

1 16303

what is info area how many types?

2279

write a scwipt that a) takes exactly one argument, a directory name. b) if the number of argument is more or less than one,print a usage message c) if the argument is not adirectory, print another message d) for the given directory, print the five biggest files and the five files that were most recently modified. e) save the output to a file called q2output.

2 5986

Hi, I want to practise Unix korn shell scripting which i learnt 2 yr bfr. plz suggest software i can use to practise.

1 3441

how to separate the even and odd number generated from one file to two separate file i.e. even numbers in file1.txt and odd numbers in file2.txt

Infosys,

4 11640

on “sed” command EmpData(Sample Database) 1122|j.b. saxena |g.m. |account |12/12/52|6000 2233|n.k. gupta |d.g.m |sales |31/12/40|9000 4545|anil agarwal |director |account |06/07/47|7500 5656|lalit choudhury |executive|marketing|07/09/50|5000 1265|chanchal singhvi|g.m. |admin |12/09/63|6000 0110|shyam saksena |chairman |marketing|12/12/43|8000 5566|jai sharma |director |account |23/12/89|7000 7733|jayant |d.g.m |sales |29/02/70|6000 1. From the above database substitute the delimiter of first 3 lines with “ : “ 2. From the above database substitute the delimiter with “ : ” 3. Insert the string “ XYZ Employees” in the first line. 4. Store the lines pertaining to the directors, d.g.m and g.m into three separate files. 5. Using address store first 4 lines into a file Empupdate. 6. Find the pattern “account” in the database and replaces that with “accounts”. 7. Select those lines which do not have a pattern “g.m”. 8. Insert a blank line after every line in the database.

2596

RAM one table colums a1,a2,a3,a4 respective values 2,4,7,8 KRISH one table colums a1,a2,a3,a4 respective values 3,4,6,9 IN RAM & KRISH a4 column if comparing values RAM A4 - KRISH A4 ( 8-9 =1 THEN print 5 or (RAM) a4 value 10 KRISH a4 values 2 then 10 -2 =8 print 5*8=40 or diff 5 print same

Tech Mahindra,

1 2617

i have 2 tables 4 colums table 1 respective values a1 6, a2 8,a3 9,a4 14 & table 2 respective values a1 6, a2 8, a3 9, a4 12. if compare 2 tables 3 colums values same then 4th column values 1)Qes diff >5 then (5 * diff value ) 2)Qes diff <5 the 5 3)Qes diff 5 then 5 print respective values..

Tech Mahindra,

1779

how to print the 2-d, 3-d arrays in unix shell script programs please answer thi questio to my mail venusaikumar@gmail.com

2098

how to print the matrix form of 2-d, 3-d arrays in unix c shell scripts ?

3588

what is the difference between sh & bash shell?

1 3216

How do you rename the files(*.sh) with file names containing space in it?for example "interview question.sh" needs to rename to "interview-question.sh". Appreciate your inputs.Thanks.

Wells Fargo,

5 10430

Please give me example of " at command , contrab command " how to use

2319


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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

What does the sh command do?

598


Write a command sequence to find the count of each word?

532


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

1968


What are scripts in psychology?

584


Why are there shells on the beach?

581






What is a shell script? Can you name some of its advantages?

518


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

522


Tell something about the super block in shell scripting?

563


What is the syntax of while loop in shell scripting?

564


Which scripting language is best for automation?

526


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

551


How to print all the arguments provided to the script?

544


Why is it called a shell?

497


How to print pid of the current shell?

591


Explain about shebang?

614