Unix Commands Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what will be the output of ls ~/..

ABC,

27 27397

what is exact definition of operating system?

13 17400

What Is the command to change a file's creation time. means one file is created at the time 15:19 then time should br changed to 14:14

3i Infotech, IBM,

8 15921

How do you find which version and name of unix you are using at the command prompt?

7 12063

Is there any command in Unix, other than:ls, to list the files in a directory? The answer will be highly appreciated...

CGI,

27 30727

What is the difference between AWK and SED commands? Plz give example and explain...

RBS,

3 46108

how to find largest file?

HCL, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters,

14 26916

What is "type" command in unix?what is the functionality??

2 16478

How to know a process is a zombie or orphan process?

Perot Systems,

3 18085

how to change a normal file into hidden file

3 10148

what is difference between unix and linux?

IBM, Shell, Wipro,

6 14107

Assume that a file’s permissions give you read and write access. What operations can you perform on the file if it is in a directory which has “r”(read) only process? What operations can you perform on the file if it is in a directory which has “x”(execute) only access?

1 6178

When the shell is reading the command line what is the difference between text enclosed between double quotes ( ” ) and text enclosed between signal quotes ( ’ )?

3 7691

The rm command removes links to file. What does this mean? How then is a file deleted from the file system?

5 10953

Assume the following files are in the working directory prompt> ls -l tasks -rw-r--r-- 1 alex student 1423 Feb 21 14:01 tasks What command can Alex use to give everyone permission to write to the file? What will the ls -l command display if he does so?

Infosys,

10 14272


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Un-Answered Questions { Unix Commands }

What is command statement?

776


Name the unix command to find how many days the server has been up.

850


What does 'mkdir' command do in UNIX?

891


What is pipe command in unix?

882


Explain the terms ‘system calls’ and ‘library functions’ with respect to unix commands?

884






What is the behavioural difference between cmp and diff commands?

862


What is .sh file?

827


Describe the zip/unzip command using gzip.

811


How is the command '$cat file2 ' different from '$cat >file2 and >> redirection operators ?

961


What does the md command do?

762


What is grep in bash?

764


Write a command that will display files in the current directory, in a colored, long format.

909


What is the use of find command in unix?

748


Explain mount and unmount command.

827


Enlist some filename manipulation commands in unix.

743