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

Shell Script Interview Questions

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What are the different kinds of loops available in shell script?

3 9028

How do you read arguments in a shell program - $1, $2 ..?

4 10211

How would you replace the n character in a file with some xyz?

7 13122

When you login to a c shell, which script would be run first?

2 6325

How would you print just the 25th line in a file using smallest shell script?

4 13034

How will you list only the empty lines in a file (using grep)?

ANZ,

4 13634

How to customise the existing shell?

1 4376

What is the difference between a variable and value?

Sun Microsystems,

7 45571

How to customise the other shell?

Quest,

2 5502

What are environment variables?

2 6984

What are the advantages of bash over all other shells?

1 13983

How to change our default shell?

5 10348

How to create environment variables?What are the conditions for creating variables?

Infosys, Wipro,

1 6567

How to make userdefined variables to available for all other shells?

4 7269

What is Path variable?What is its use?

1 5282

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Un-Answered Questions { Shell Script }

What is the difference between break and continue commands?

1102

‎What is a shell? · ‎Types of shell · ‎what is shell scripting?

984

How do you debug a script?

1068

What are the 3 standard streams in linux?

1141

What is a file basename?

1047

Explain how you Automate your application using Shell scripting.

2318

What does it mean by #!/Bin/sh or #!/Bin/bash at the beginning of every script?

1064

What is bash eval?

1013

What is the crontab?

1085

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

1056

What is shell chemistry?

982

What are the disadvantages of shell scripting?

1200

Why is used in shell scripting?

999

Which is better perl or shell scripting?

991

What is a shell made of?

962

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