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?

1000

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

1046

List the three main parts of an operating system command?

921

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

1019

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

983

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

888

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

943

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

973

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

964

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

1066

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

1075

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

1091

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

1071

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

932

What can you tell about the tar command?

1093

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

Boot sequence of linux on embedded platform

3253

Can you boot linux on a mac?

813

Does it help for a Linux system to have multiple desktop environments installed?

1040

What is the advantage of linux operating system?

831

You have a file called sales data and create symbolic links to it in bob’s home directory. Bob calls you and says that his link no longer works. How can you fix the link?

883

What is pipe linux?

780

What are Wait and Post Operations?

1502

have you done any big projects in linux? If so, explain them in brief.

828

What is meant by sticky bit?

873

How can you determine the total memory used by linux?

933

Why are user level threads faster than kernel level threads?

843

What is libc in linux?

871

Can I download linux for free?

766

Can I put linux on my laptop?

841

Which linux is best for laptop?

853

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