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

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Send me some of the commands being used in linux

Aurobindo, Dr Reddys, IBM, Reddy Labs,

5 14916

What is the difference between an argument and an option/switch?

Wipro,

3 28969

What is the difference between home directory and working directory?

Accenture, Flexi,

10 27397

Which directory is closer to the top of the file system tree, parent directory or current directory?

3 7921

in LINUX,What are two subtle differences in using the more and the pg commands?

2 8552

When is it better to use the more command rather than cat command?

3 9643

List all the files beginning with A

10 15881

How can you see all mounted drives?

10 58689

tell me some of the Linux HotKeys do you know?

3 9018

What u know abt tar Command?

Locuz,

5 12096

How you will uncompress the file?

Linux,

7 15281

What does the top command display?

iNautix, Yahoo,

10 25000

How can you find configuration on linux?

5 16689

What are RPM?s, what do they offer?

2 9907

How does the boot process[init levels] work on Linux? How is it different from Solaris?

3 14988

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

What is bc command in unix?

1044

Explain difference between swap partition and swap file?

929

how would you get hardware details in linux operating system?

822

What is pthread in linux?

819

Is mac a unix or linux?

834

i installed clustering packages.When i try to run it getting LUCI error...what is it..??

2372

How long has linux been around?

856

What are the significance of semaphores what are the different types of semaphores?

818

You are required to restore the file memo.ben. It was backed up in the tar file MyBackup.tar. Which command would you use to do it?

1064

Explain LILO?

925

What is ls command and what it does?

996

Explain about communication features in UNIX?

1077

What command used for showing user info like Login Name, Canonical Name, Home Directory,Shell etc in Linux?

1158

What is an a record, an ns record, a ptr record, a cname record, an mx record?

895

What is semaphore and types?

884

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