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

Shell Script Interview Questions

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How to find all the files modified in less than 3 days and save the record in a text file?

1100

How many fields are present in a crontab file and what does each field specify?

1179

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

1235

How to pass an argument to a script?

1281

Differentiate between ‘ and ” quotes.

1245

When should shell programming/scripting not be used?

1210

How can you get the value of pi till a 100 decimal places?

1011

How to get the last line from a file using just the terminal?

1270

How would you compare the strings in a shell script?

1026

Write a shell script that adds two numbers if provided as the command line argument and if the two numbers are not entered throws an error message.

1320

How to calculate the number of passed arguments?

1162

Write down the syntax for all the loops in shell scripting.

1182

What is the crontab?

1138

What are the two files of crontab command?

1298

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

1192

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What is sudo command?

1102

What are the different variables present in linux shell?

1153

What is web script?

1134

Is scripting and coding the same thing?

1033

What exactly is a shell?

1125

Tell something about the super block in shell scripting?

1078

What shell is bin sh?

1014

What is an sh file?

984

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

1172

What are script files?

1064

What is sed in shell script?

1098

What is in a script?

1055

What is path variable bash?

1087

State the advantages of shell scripting?

1094

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.

2256

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