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?

1100

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

1181

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

1235

How to pass an argument to a script?

1283

Differentiate between ‘ and ” quotes.

1247

When should shell programming/scripting not be used?

1214

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

1013

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

1274

How would you compare the strings in a shell script?

1031

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.

1321

How to calculate the number of passed arguments?

1167

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

1183

What is the crontab?

1141

What are the two files of crontab command?

1301

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

1195

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

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

1237

What is shell scripting?

1096

Is shell script a programming language?

1069

What does chmod do?

1295

How do I open the shell in cmd?

1207

Please give me example of " at command , contrab command " how to use

2841

How important is shell scripting?

1078

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

1508

What is difference between bash and shell?

1172

What is shell terminal?

997

What is shell environment?

1046

Write a script to print the first 10 elements of fibonacci series.

2408

What is ms powershell?

1071

What does $$ mean in shell script?

1107

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

1215

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