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?

1117

What is the use of a shebang line?

1255

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

1056

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

1428

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

1063

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

2579

What is the difference between grep and egrep?

1186

What are the 3 standard streams in linux?

1200

What is a boot block?

1081

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

1074

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

940

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

1011

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

1609

What is an inode block?

1110

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

1232

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

What can you do with powershell?

1187

Calculate a real number calculation directly from the terminal and not any shell script.

1284

How to get the last line from a file using just the terminal?

1271

Is powershell a bash?

1122

How do scripts work?

1079

What is batch file programming?

1199

What does $@ mean bash?

1240

What are the zombie processes?

1033

Using set -A write a script to print the output of the ls command in 5 columns with two spaces between each column. Pretend that ls does not have multicolumn output.

2704

Why is it called a shell?

969

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

1124

How will you copy a file from one machine to other?

1053

How do I run a shell script in powershell?

1173

How to open a read-only file in the shell?

1175

What is the significance of $#?

1165

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