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

Shell Script Interview Questions

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How to find all the files modified in less than 3 days and save the record in a text file?

1062

How many fields are present in a crontab file and what does each field specify?

1127

How to get the 3rd element/column from each line from a file?

1189

How to pass an argument to a script?

1209

Differentiate between ‘ and ” quotes.

1167

When should shell programming/scripting not be used?

1154

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

970

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

1231

How would you compare the strings in a shell script?

984

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 calculate the number of passed arguments?

1098

Write down the syntax for all the loops in shell scripting.

1140

What is the crontab?

1085

What are the two files of crontab command?

1235

What is the significance of the shebang line in shell scripting?

1125

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

What exactly is a shell?

1083

What is a scripting language simple definition?

1100

What happens on a system call?

1016

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

1004

Is it possible to substitute "ls" command in the place of "echo" command?

1056

What are the default permissions of a file when it is created?

1020

What is k shell?

955

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

976

Differentiate between ‘ and ” quotes.

1167

What is shell and shell script?

1116

is this growing field and what is average package in this?

2304

Tell something about the super block in shell scripting?

1035

What is web script?

1089

Why is it called a shell?

930

What is bash command used for?

1069

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