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?

1116

What is the use of a shebang line?

1255

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

1056

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

1427

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

1063

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

2579

What is the difference between grep and egrep?

1185

What are the 3 standard streams in linux?

1200

What is a boot block?

1081

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

1074

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

940

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

1011

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

1609

What is an inode block?

1109

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

1232

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What can scripts do?

1159

Why is a script important?

1107

What is a command line shell?

1101

What are the advantages of shell script?

1080

What is the first line in every perl script called?

1096

What is eval in shell script?

1322

How does shell scripting work?

1159

Explain about the exit command?

1028

How to check if the previous command was run successfully?

1086

What is option in shell script?

1057

What is shell environment?

1040

What is $1 in shell scripting?

1083

Explain about return code?

1117

How to get script name inside a script?

1059

What is the use of "$?" Sign in shell script?

1213

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