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

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the difference between a hard link and a soft link?

1 1435

What is the difference between kill, pkill, and killall?

1 1430

What is the difference between ‘apt’ and ‘yum’?

1 1403

What does the 'cd' command do in Linux?

1 1541

How would you check the available disk space on a Linux system?

1 1588

What is the purpose of the 'chmod' command?

1 1658

How do you view the contents of a file in Linux?

1 1474

Explain how you would find a specific string in a file.

1 1466

How do you list all the files in a directory, including hidden files?

1 1490

What is the purpose of the 'ps' command?

1 1560

How do you check the current system uptime in Linux?

1 1477

How would you monitor real-time system performance in Linux?

1 1762

Explain how you would manage background and foreground processes in Linux.

1 1436

What are the main components of a Linux system?

1 1661

What is the role of the Linux kernel?

1 1549

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

Which of the Commands delete the files from the /tmp directory, issued by non-root user?

1044

Write a bash script to delete all the files in the current directory that contains the word “linux”.

848

What is ssh? How to connect to a remote server via ssh?

880

What is the difference between ext2 vs ext3 vs ext4?

930

Explain how you can view the text file using terminal?

769

What is the use of a symbolic link in linux?

835

How do I clear terminal command history?

1049

How many threads can a cpu run?

785

You issue the command head * what would the resulting output be?

929

Where are sar logs stored?

813

what is difference between lilo and grub in linux operating system?

902

How do I enable linux on windows?

877

Is windows faster than linux?

807

Torvalds, wrote most of the linux kernel in c++ programming language, do you agree?

890

How do I open a text file in cmd?

976

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