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

Unix Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How to put a job in background & bring it to foreground?

3 9980

What is default permissions for others in a file?

5 8403

What is the difference between grep & find?

HCL,

3 49740

What is egrep?

2 8552

What is a pipe?

Fichtner,

18 21334

what happens when we create a file system?

1 5027

what is a profile?

1 4748

From command line how will you add a user account?

2 5742

Name key files or directories on a UNIX system that should always be backed up?

1 6153

Name key files or directories on a Windows system that should always be backed up?

2 5789

What is an incremental backup?

2 5740

What is a level 0 backup?

Atos Origin,

2 11161

What steps are required to perform a bare-metal recovery?

1 5800

What are the main differences between Apache 1.x and 2.x?

IBM,

1 8479

What does the ?route? command do?

2 6484

Un-Answered Questions { Unix }

Is mac a unix system?

867

Write a script that prints out date information in this order: time, the day of week, day number, month, year(sample output: 17:34:51 pdt sun 12 feb 2012)

1224

You have a file called tonky in the directory honky. Later you add new material to tonky. What changes take place in the directory, inode, and file?

1184

Describe the term directory?

1443

Elucidate on the different ids used in the unix process?

954

What does this command do? Cat food 1 > kitty

1588

How the Kernel handles the fork() system call in traditional Unix and in the System V Unix, while swapping?

932

How can I write a multi-homed server?

1647

The syntax of command statement in UNIX

List the distributions of unix.

958

Is unix cli or gui?

880

How to find a file in unix?

981

How do you kill a process in unix?

958

What are the bits that support the demand paging?

985

What are conditions on which deadlock can occur while swapping the processes?

1126

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