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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?

1149

How do we delete all blank lines in a file?

1115

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

1180

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

2 6930

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

1006

What is gui scripting?

1103

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

1099

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

1056

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

1182

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

1069

Why is the use of shell script?

979

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

1081

What is the use of break command?

1111

What are the zombie processes?

972

What are the advantages of shell scripting?

1045

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What command needs to be used to take the backup?

990

I have to write Shells (Linux + Unix)for publishing packages and reports. Is it possible ? What are the differents executable programs ineed to call ?

2171

what is info area how many types?

2768

How do I run a .sh file?

1022

What is k shell?

959

How to check if the previous command was run successfully?

1045

How to redirect both standard output and standard error to the same location?

1173

Is shell scripting difficult?

959

What is the difference between grep and egrep?

1138

What is shell scripting used for?

998

What does debug script mean?

981

Is shell scripting a programming language?

1055

Is shell a scripting language?

1015

What is scripting autism?

1215

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

902

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