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

Shell Script Interview Questions

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What are the three main forms of enabling debugging in a shell script?

ADC, Wipro,

6 14639

what is the difference between writing code in shell and editor?

1 8772

What is the basic difference you find between a shell script and perl?

Yahoo,

3 19756

What is use of "cut" command?

3 10034

what is this line in the shell script do ?#!/bin/ksh

5 14855

How Connect to a Database in Shell Programming?

Syntel,

4 24701

write a shell script to identify the given string is palindrome or not?

CTS, HP, IBM, InfoEst, Wipro,

17 104486

What is INODE?

2 7600

What is the difference between a 'thread' and a 'process'?

3 7848

What are the Different types of shells?

5 9982

What does $# stand for?

IBM,

3 10017

If you have a string "one two three", which shell command would you use to extract the strings?

5 13105

What is the difference between a shell variable that is exported and the one that is not exported?

6 12066

What is MUTEX?

1 6274

How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning?

Wipro,

5 17428

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

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

1055

What is difference between bash and shell?

1095

Explain about login shell?

1112

Explain about debugging?

1016

is this growing field and what is average package in this?

2301

What happens when you type ls?

987

Can we run shell script in windows?

1131

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

995

What is the default shell of solaris?

1038

Print a given number, in reverse order using a shell script such that the input is provided using command line argument only.

1151

How to find duplicate record in file using shell script?

1394

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.

2202

how to get part of string variable with echo command only?

1021

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

1132

Explain about return code?

1069

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