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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?

1174

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

2 6929

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

1006

What is gui scripting?

1103

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?

1182

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

1068

Why is the use of shell script?

979

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

1076

What is the use of break command?

1111

What are the zombie processes?

972

What are the advantages of shell scripting?

1042

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What is the best scripting language?

1032

How do I open a jshell in cmd?

1248

What are script files?

1036

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

1174

Is shell scripting a programming language?

1052

What are the different commands available to check the disk usage?

1004

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

1127

Explain about shebang?

1039

What is the syntax of while loop in shell scripting?

1047

What is eval in shell script?

1253

What is shell prompt?

1019

How to check if the previous command was run successfully?

1041

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.

1286

How to check if a directory exists?

1197

What is a shell script? Can you name some of its advantages?

1061

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