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?

1058

What is the use of a shebang line?

1197

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

1024

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

1351

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

1026

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

2537

What is the difference between grep and egrep?

1137

What are the 3 standard streams in linux?

1141

What is a boot block?

1029

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

1040

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".

1561

What is an inode block?

1055

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

1158

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What are the different types of shell scripting?

1118

What is mac default shell?

1101

What can you do with powershell?

1140

Explain about the slow execution speed of shells?

1229

Devise a script that takes file name as arguement(which must present in the current directory)and locates from your home directory tree all thpath names of its links.Then mail the list to self.

2213

What is a beat in a script?

1075

Is powershell a language?

1048

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.

2668

What are the different types of variables used in shell script?

1077

What is shell geeksforgeeks?

1110

How will you emulate wc –l using awk?

1535

Explain about sourcing commands?

1100

Is shell and terminal the same?

1062

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

1125

madhar chod unix ke 10 commands dhang se likh nahi sakta hai

3477

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