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

Unix Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What does iostat do?

IBM,

4 12429

What are the read or write or execute bits on a directory mean?

2 5934

How do you list the files in an UNIX directory while also showing hidden files?

6 15199

How do you execute a UNIX command in the background?

6 17811

What UNIX command will control the default file permissions when files are created?

4 11357

Explain the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX directory.

5 14743

the difference between a soft link and a hard link?

6 13614

Give the command to display space usage on the UNIX file system.

6 13073

Explain iostat, vmstat and netstat.

CTS, Wipro,

3 23752

How would you change all occurrences of a value using VI?

4 16122

Give two UNIX kernel parameters that effect an Oracle install

Oracle,

3 11399

Briefly, how do you install Oracle software on UNIX.

2 11530

In Unix inter process communication take place using?

2 12130

what is the process id for kernell process

3 7330

what is the very first process created by kernell

5 12492

Un-Answered Questions { Unix }

Explain the method of changing file access permission?

1005

Is a directory unix?

922

What do chgrp command do?

1285

Explain Sticky bit?

1049

How to work unix commands on windows xp without installing unix o/s in pc?

1060

What is the use of the tee command?

1153

How would you kill a process?

1073

What is unix used for?

1014

Name the data structure used to maintain file identification?

1038

Can you tell me something about wildcard interpretation?

949

If your server is running on Unix and one of the sessions are keep on running without loading any data. how would you kill it?

1146

How do I show only directories in unix?

1118

How to log out in unix?

1050

What is YACC?

1164

Write a command to kill the last background job?

1152

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