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

Shell Script Interview Questions

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Hi, i want to zip the files that generates automatically every few minutes (files generated are in .arc extension)....any body write a script for this... thanks in advance

HP,

5 9619

wats the deinitions for shell utility and filter?

2265

Script S1 (which copies .dat files from one directory1 to another directory2) run continuously. Write Script S2 which kills S1 first, compresses all .dat files in directory1 and directory2 successfully, re-run Script S1 and stops self i.e. S2.

IBM, TCS,

2 9844

Dear All, Can anybody tell me how to predefind no. of selected rows from a text file.

MGL,

1 4989

Is SSO and SSL support BOXI?

2 4971

what do u mean by $#,$* in unix programming?

Convergys, TCS,

5 13527

defination of mapfile in winrunner?

2195

Write a shell script to looking at the log file to see if the test has passed or not

TCS,

2 7614

Why we are writting shell scripts? Plz if possible explain it briefly.

ITC Infotech,

6 12390

Hi Friends, I am currently Undergoing Course On Testing.I am Planning To Keep Fake Resume.Can any One tell me the ways to Prepare i.e, Real Time experience For Manual Testing. With Regards, Vikram

1 5668

If one dont know how to create a script then how he/she can use the QTP?

1 3386

How to handle the delimiter unit seperator in Unix

2 5717

I have to write Shells (Linux + Unix)for publishing packages and reports. Is it possible ? What are the differents executable programs ineed to call ?

2105

how did u debugging in unix/ linux platform ??( project Related)

Symphony,

2 6875

How can I Debug a shell scripts and Perl scripting?? or How do you debug a shell scripting and perl scripting ( at the compile time error or run time error) in Unix environment ?

4 7814

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How do I save a powershell script?

1086

Is powershell a language?

994

What is the default ubuntu terminal?

1059

How do I run a bin bash script?

981

What is shell and terminal?

937

What are the various stages of a linux process it passes through?

1105

What shell is bin sh?

917

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

2732

Explain about gui scripting?

1046

What is the first line of a shell script called?

1039

How do I stop script errors?

1050

on “sed” command EmpData(Sample Database) 1122|j.b. saxena |g.m. |account |12/12/52|6000 2233|n.k. gupta |d.g.m |sales |31/12/40|9000 4545|anil agarwal |director |account |06/07/47|7500 5656|lalit choudhury |executive|marketing|07/09/50|5000 1265|chanchal singhvi|g.m. |admin |12/09/63|6000 0110|shyam saksena |chairman |marketing|12/12/43|8000 5566|jai sharma |director |account |23/12/89|7000 7733|jayant |d.g.m |sales |29/02/70|6000 1. From the above database substitute the delimiter of first 3 lines with “ : “ 2. From the above database substitute the delimiter with “ : ” 3. Insert the string “ XYZ Employees” in the first line. 4. Store the lines pertaining to the directors, d.g.m and g.m into three separate files. 5. Using address store first 4 lines into a file Empupdate. 6. Find the pattern “account” in the database and replaces that with “accounts”. 7. Select those lines which do not have a pattern “g.m”. 8. Insert a blank line after every line in the database.

3057

What is gui scripting?

1033

What are script files?

976

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

975

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