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 14375

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

1 8667

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

Yahoo,

3 19604

What is use of "cut" command?

3 9861

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

5 14655

How Connect to a Database in Shell Programming?

Syntel,

4 24521

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

CTS, HP, IBM, InfoEst, Wipro,

17 103953

What is INODE?

2 7469

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

3 7712

What are the Different types of shells?

5 9810

What does $# stand for?

IBM,

3 9858

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

5 12926

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

6 11864

What is MUTEX?

1 6158

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

Wipro,

5 17228

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

What is wc in shell script?

937

How do I run a .sh file on mac?

1095

What is the first line in every perl script called?

984

How do I read a .sh file?

1040

What are the advantages of using shell scripts?

1026

How do you know which shell I am using?

993

How to check if the previous command was run successfully?

995

Given a file find the count of lines containing the word "abc".

1502

Why is it called a shell?

886

What is a shell made of?

909

What is the command to find out users on the system?

922

Is shell scripting useful?

1003

Is shell scripting a programming language?

1010

What are the four fundamental components of every file system on linux?

1632

What does $@ mean bash?

1105

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