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

Linux Interview Questions

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You want to know how many lines in the kickoff file contains ‘prize’. Which of the following commands will produce the desired results?

1061

What would be the result of issuing the command cat phonenos?

1152

List the three main parts of an operating system command?

967

What command would you use to create an empty file without opening it to edit it?

1076

You want to copy the user’s home directories to a new location. Which of the following commands will accomplish this?

1026

You wish to print the file vacations with 60 lines to a page. Which of the following commands will accomplish this?

936

What would be the result of the command paste -s dog cat?

1008

What command do you type to find help about the command who?

1019

You issue the command head * what would the resulting output be?

1016

Explain trap command; shift command, getopts command of linux?

1124

What are two functions the move mv command can carry out?

1125

Which of the commands will replace all occurrences of the word rate with the word speed in the file racing?

1178

What command should you use to check the number of files and disk space used and each user’s defined quotas?

1125

Which of the following tasks cannot be accomplished with the touch command?

994

What can you tell about the tar command?

1173

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

What does whoami do?

985

What command would you use to check how much memory is being used by linux?

1082

What is ipc problem?

980

How lilo is useful in linux?

1018

What is a semaphore c?

908

Explain how you can find a file using terminal?

883

Which command in linux is used for the description of any command?

968

Can spinlock be interrupted?

844

How to uninstall the libraries in linux?

1044

Are threads processes?

882

What is the difference between lock and semaphore?

949

What does socket consist of?

875

How do you insert comments in the command line prompt?

1226

Users come to you and they will be saying mail server is very slow, what are the necessary steps you will take to resolve this issue in Linux?

992

What is cpu in linux?

1111

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