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

Unix Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

why unix operating system provides more security than other operating systems?

4 16878

why unix commands can be divided into internal and external commands?

Informatica,

3 11865

How to write the program on full-duplex communication on biderctional(e.g using two pipes)

Infosys,

2 20027

Which RAID Levels supported by LVM?

5 12875

Where can I get the free download of Unix by Yeswant Kanetkar?

5 8780

can we use cat command as an editor ..???

TCS,

12 23143

Need a Code snippet about how sharing is happening between Parent and Child threads in OS?

2508

virtual terminal protocol is an example of which layer and works with which layer?

DOEACC, Virtusa,

1 5199

How can we "forked" process in UNIX? How then recognize in any of the branches we?

NIIT,

2 7066

How does one process we can start an executable file? How to get the PID process, which we started?

6 11184

how many internal commands is there in UNIX?

TCS, Virtusa,

3 16661

How to set sticky bit, or it have any seperate directory to create sticky bit in sunfir servers. Please help me , i don't no the exact answer?

HCL, Wipro,

4 12337

how to create a file system quota in HP-UX?

HCL,

1 5433

What is semaphone?

HCL,

5 19799

. Using sed and grep, write a command which lists files and directories with following properties: (i) created in 1999 (ii) with user's as owner and group

2621

Un-Answered Questions { Unix }

Who owns unix?

869

Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1392

Differentiate relative path from an absolute path?

854

How to terminate a shell script if statement?

988

Which unix shell is best?

908

Explain the term filter.

884

Which unix command lists files/folders in alphabetical order?

1659

What is the command to find hidden files in the current directory?

1139

why metadb requires a seperate slice to create Solaris volume manager

3079

What does cd mean in unix?

857

What is meant by the term nohup?

885

Define a process group.

868

Explain what is critical section?

919

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

956

Explain ‘library functions’ with respect to unix commands?

1113

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