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In my bash shell I want my prompt to be of format '$"present working directory":"hostname"> and load a file containing a list of user-defined functions as soon as I log in, how will you automate this?

1149

How do we delete all blank lines in a file?

1115

How can we find the process name from its process id?

1180

How will I insert a line "abcdef" at every 100th line of a file?

2 6930

How will you copy a file from one machine to other?

1006

What is gui scripting?

1104

What is the syntax of "nested if statement" in shell scripting?

1099

Is it possible to substitute "ls" command in the place of "echo" command?

1056

What are the various stages of a linux process it passes through?

1183

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

1070

Why is the use of shell script?

979

What are the different types of variables used in shell script?

1082

What is the use of break command?

1111

What are the zombie processes?

972

What are the advantages of shell scripting?

1045

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What is a batch file used for?

1081

What is a shell made of?

962

What does sh mean?

1055

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

1062

Is shell scripting difficult?

960

State the advantages of shell scripting?

1052

What language is shell scripting?

1030

What is an inode block?

1056

How to calculate the number of passed arguments?

1102

Determine the output of the following command: [ -z “” ] && echo 0 || echo 1

997

What does $0 mean in shell script?

1005

Set up a Sev 2 alert when the Primary WA service fails. A windows batch script needs to be created that will monitor the WA service on the Primary and when the service stops/fails a Sev 2 TT is generated for a particular team ?

2162

What can you do with powershell?

1141

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

1125

What is the first line in a shell script?

1108

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