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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?

1081

How do we delete all blank lines in a file?

1056

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

1137

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

2 6810

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

953

What is gui scripting?

1032

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

1044

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

1007

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

1104

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

1000

Why is the use of shell script?

938

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

992

What is the use of break command?

1049

What are the zombie processes?

923

What are the advantages of shell scripting?

991

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Write a command sequence to find all the files modified in less than 2 days and print the record count of each.

1449

What is a program shell?

996

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..

2098

c program to implement unix/linux command to block the signal ctrl-c and ctrl-\ signal during the execution ls -l|wc -l

3710

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

975

What is sh in shell script?

967

What are the advantages of shell script?

976

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

1116

What does debug script mean?

927

What is subshell?

885

What is sed in shell script?

985

What is the use of break command?

1049

What is shell application?

955

What is a shell environment?

944

What is bourne shell scripting?

928

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