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

Shell Script Interview Questions

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Explain about "s" permission bit in a file?

1004

What is the use of a shebang line?

1122

I want to connect to a remote server and execute some commands, how can I achieve this?

981

I want to monitor a continuously updating log file, what command can be used to most efficiently achieve this?

1269

What are "c" and "b" permission fields of a file?

975

How will you find the 99th line of a file using only tail and head command?

2482

What is the difference between grep and egrep?

1076

What are the 3 standard streams in linux?

1062

What is a boot block?

966

How can I send a mail with a compressed file as an attachment?

992

How can you find out how long the system has been running?

855

How will you print the login names of all users on a system?

926

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

1504

What is an inode block?

1005

How will you pass and access arguments to a script in linux?

1083

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Explain about debugging?

974

How to redirect both standard output and standard error to the same location?

1116

What is a scripting language simple definition?

1030

What is meant by $1 in shell script?

915

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

922

When should shell programming/scripting not be used?

1092

What is batch file programming?

1111

I want to create a directory such that anyone in the group can create a file and access any person's file in it but none should be able to delete a file other than the one created by himself.

974

Why do we use shell scripting?

944

Explain about gui scripting?

1045

How do scripts work?

1003

What does .sh file contain?

911

How to open a read-only file in the shell?

1085

Is shell scripting a programming language?

1010

What is difference between shell and bash scripting?

944

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