Shell Script Interview Questions
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what does "kill -9" and "kill -1" do

Amazon,

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what is the difference between cmp and diff commands

Amazon, CTS,

2 7945

how to find weblogic version through linux cammand

L&T,

1 16340

what is info area how many types?

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write a scwipt that a) takes exactly one argument, a directory name. b) if the number of argument is more or less than one,print a usage message c) if the argument is not adirectory, print another message d) for the given directory, print the five biggest files and the five files that were most recently modified. e) save the output to a file called q2output.

2 6021

Hi, I want to practise Unix korn shell scripting which i learnt 2 yr bfr. plz suggest software i can use to practise.

1 3458

how to separate the even and odd number generated from one file to two separate file i.e. even numbers in file1.txt and odd numbers in file2.txt

Infosys,

4 11693

on “sed” command EmpData(Sample Database) 1122|j.b. saxena |g.m. |account |12/12/52|6000 2233|n.k. gupta |d.g.m |sales |31/12/40|9000 4545|anil agarwal |director |account |06/07/47|7500 5656|lalit choudhury |executive|marketing|07/09/50|5000 1265|chanchal singhvi|g.m. |admin |12/09/63|6000 0110|shyam saksena |chairman |marketing|12/12/43|8000 5566|jai sharma |director |account |23/12/89|7000 7733|jayant |d.g.m |sales |29/02/70|6000 1. From the above database substitute the delimiter of first 3 lines with “ : “ 2. From the above database substitute the delimiter with “ : ” 3. Insert the string “ XYZ Employees” in the first line. 4. Store the lines pertaining to the directors, d.g.m and g.m into three separate files. 5. Using address store first 4 lines into a file Empupdate. 6. Find the pattern “account” in the database and replaces that with “accounts”. 7. Select those lines which do not have a pattern “g.m”. 8. Insert a blank line after every line in the database.

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RAM one table colums a1,a2,a3,a4 respective values 2,4,7,8 KRISH one table colums a1,a2,a3,a4 respective values 3,4,6,9 IN RAM & KRISH a4 column if comparing values RAM A4 - KRISH A4 ( 8-9 =1 THEN print 5 or (RAM) a4 value 10 KRISH a4 values 2 then 10 -2 =8 print 5*8=40 or diff 5 print same

Tech Mahindra,

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i have 2 tables 4 colums table 1 respective values a1 6, a2 8,a3 9,a4 14 & table 2 respective values a1 6, a2 8, a3 9, a4 12. if compare 2 tables 3 colums values same then 4th column values 1)Qes diff >5 then (5 * diff value ) 2)Qes diff <5 the 5 3)Qes diff 5 then 5 print respective values..

Tech Mahindra,

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how to print the 2-d, 3-d arrays in unix shell script programs please answer thi questio to my mail venusaikumar@gmail.com

2110

how to print the matrix form of 2-d, 3-d arrays in unix c shell scripts ?

3608

what is the difference between sh & bash shell?

1 3235

How do you rename the files(*.sh) with file names containing space in it?for example "interview question.sh" needs to rename to "interview-question.sh". Appreciate your inputs.Thanks.

Wells Fargo,

5 10490

Please give me example of " at command , contrab command " how to use

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

Using set -A write a script to print the output of the ls command in 5 columns with two spaces between each column. Pretend that ls does not have multicolumn output.

2036


What is a batch file used for?

564


What is meant by $1 in shell script?

553


What is the meaning of $1 in shell script?

600


Write a shell script that adds two numbers if provided as the command line argument and if the two numbers are not entered throws an error message.

803






c program to display the information of given file similar to givan by the unix or linux command ls -l

1701


What is the best shell scripting language?

544


What is a file basename?

598


How do I run a .sh file on mac?

683


Is shell script a programming language?

572


I have 2 files and I want to print the records which are common to both.

704


How to find duplicate record in file using shell script?

855


What language is used in terminal?

560


What is gui scripting?

607


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

636