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In my bash shell I want my prompt to be of format '$"present working directory":"hostname"> and load a file containing a list of user-defined functions as soon as I log in, how will you automate this?

1083

How do we delete all blank lines in a file?

1056

How can we find the process name from its process id?

1139

How will I insert a line "abcdef" at every 100th line of a file?

2 6814

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

954

What is gui scripting?

1034

What is the syntax of "nested if statement" in shell scripting?

1046

Is it possible to substitute "ls" command in the place of "echo" command?

1009

What are the various stages of a linux process it passes through?

1108

What is the use of "$#" in shell scripting?

1002

Why is the use of shell script?

941

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

994

What is the use of break command?

1050

What are the zombie processes?

925

What are the advantages of shell scripting?

991

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What is sh in shell script?

967

What can scripts do?

1056

What is the command to find out today's date?

1096

What is the first line in a shell script?

1032

What is shell prompt?

970

How can I set the default rwx permission to all users on every file which is created in the current shell?

1380

What is bash eval?

944

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

1058

Where is bash history?

867

What is path variable bash?

1000

What is a file basename?

1002

What is sudo command?

985

c program which behaves like a shell(command interpreter). it has its own prompt say "NewShell$".any normal shell command is executed from your shell by starting a child process to execute a system program corrosponding to the command

5339

What does $1 mean in bash?

1033

How do I run a .sh file on mac?

1100

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