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Shell Script Interview Questions

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

1107

What is the syntax of while loop in shell scripting?

978

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

930

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

1085

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

980

How do you create a shortcut in linux?

1129

Suppose you execute a command using exec, what will be the status of your current process in the shell?

1026

What makes c shell a more preferable option than the bourne shell?

921

How to print all the arguments provided to the script?

910

Tell something about the super block in shell scripting?

975

Write a shell script to get current date, time, user name and current working directory.

1035

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

959

Print a given number, in reverse order using a shell script such that the input is provided using command line argument only.

1116

How to get the first line from a file using just the terminal?

1063

How to use arguments in a script?

1045

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Differentiate between ‘ and ” quotes.

1099

When should shell programming/scripting not be used?

1092

c program to implement unix/linux command to block the signal ctrl-c and ctrl-\ signal during the execution ls -l|wc -l

3711

What are zombie processes?

979

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

975

How can you get the value of pi till a 100 decimal places?

921

What is another name for a bash shell script that you might see?

1421

Explain about non-login shell files?

1144

What is a file basename?

1002

Explore about environment variables?

990

one folder contains lot of students name but I want to fetch hello with every student name individually using shell script

913

What is the fastest scripting language?

946

How to get the last line from a file using just the terminal?

1165

What is bash eval?

944

How can any user find out all information about a specific user like his default shell, real-life name, default directory, when and how long he has been using the system?

1062

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