Shell Script Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Shell Script Interview Questions

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What command needs to be used to take the backup?

1027

What does it mean by #!/Bin/sh or #!/Bin/bash at the beginning of every script?

1113

How to print pid of the current shell?

1038

How can the contents of a file inside jar be read without extracting in a shell script?

1173

How to print the first array element?

1082

Can you write a script to portray how set –x works?

1040

How to debug the problems encountered in the shell script/program?

1189

What are the different communication commands available in the shell?

1008

How to write a function?

1067

How to print all array elements and their respective indexes?

1011

Determine the output of the following command: name=shubham && echo ‘my name is $name’.

1031

What are the advantages of shell script?

1080

How to check if the previous command was run successfully?

1086

What is the lifespan of a variable inside a shell script?

1698

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

1199

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

Write a shell script to get current date, time, user name and current working directory.

1129

write a shell script to generate a alert ? like when ur birthday came then generate a alert ur birthday is today like that ?

4182

What does sh mean?

1102

What is computer cli?

946

How do we create command aliases in a shell?

1031

Explain about shebang?

1082

What is web script?

1134

What is the way to do multilevel if-else's in shell scripting?

1347

What is shell chemistry?

1024

What is the default ubuntu terminal?

1178

write a shell script to emulate the Id command of PRIMOS which lists files and directories. It list files first with a header FILES and then directories with a header DIRECTORIES. This command has several options. The main ones are. -file select files only -dir select directories only -reverse sort in reverse order -no_header put no header on the output -brief output the header only -size display the size of each file -help display Id´s syntax and options.

2821

How to get the 3rd element/column from each line from a file?

1235

What is shell environment?

1040

What is bash shell command?

1047

What is awk in shell script?

1271

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