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    Basic Shell Scripting Interview Questions and Answers

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    This document provides summaries of common Linux shell commands and concepts: - echo $SHELL displays the user's current shell. date displays the current date. who lists users on the system. pwd shows the current directory. rm removes a file. rm -rf recursively removes a directory and its contents. whoami displays the user's username. - mail sends an email. wc counts words, lines, and characters in a file. grep searches for a string in a file or directory. ps lists running processes. kill stops a process. kill 0 stops all processes except the shell. ./process & runs a process in the background. - Shell scripts use conditional statements like if/then/fi and operators like

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    This document provides summaries of common Linux shell commands and concepts: - echo $SHELL displays the user's current shell. date displays the current date. who lists users on the system. pwd shows the current directory. rm removes a file. rm -rf recursively removes a directory and its contents. whoami displays the user's username. - mail sends an email. wc counts words, lines, and characters in a file. grep searches for a string in a file or directory. ps lists running processes. kill stops a process. kill 0 stops all processes except the shell. ./process & runs a process in the background. - Shell scripts use conditional statements like if/then/fi and operators like

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    This document provides summaries of common Linux shell commands and concepts: - echo $SHELL displays the user's current shell. date displays the current date. who lists users on the system. pwd shows the current directory. rm removes a file. rm -rf recursively removes a directory and its contents. whoami displays the user's username. - mail sends an email. wc counts words, lines, and characters in a file. grep searches for a string in a file or directory. ps lists running processes. kill stops a process. kill 0 stops all processes except the shell. ./process & runs a process in the background. - Shell scripts use conditional statements like if/then/fi and operators like

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    How do you find out whats your shell?

    echo $SHELL
    Whats the command to find out todays date? date
    Whats the command to find out users on the system? who
    How do you find out the current directory youre in? pwd
    How do you remove a file? rm
    How do you remove a - rm -rf
    How do you find out your own username? whoami
    How do you send a mail message to somebody? mail [email protected] -s Your
    subject -c [email protected]
    How do you count words, lines and characters in a file? wc
    How do you search for a string inside a given file? grep string filename
    How do you search for a string inside a directory? grep string *
    How do you search for a string in a directory with the subdirectories recursed?
    grep -r string *
    What are PIDs? They are process IDs given to processes. A PID can vary from 0 to
    65535.
    How do you list currently running process? ps
    How do you stop a process? kill pid
    How do you find out about all running processes? ps -ag
    How do you stop all the processes, except the shell window? kill 0
    How do you fire a process in the background? ./process-name &
    How do you refer to the arguments passed to a shell script? $1, $2 and so on. $0
    is your script name.
    Whats the conditional statement in shell scripting? if {condition} then fi
    How do you do number comparison in shell scripts? -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, -ge
    How do you test for file properties in shell scripts? -s filename tells you if t
    he file is not empty, -f filename tells you whether the argument is a file, and
    not a directory, -d filename tests if the argument is a directory, and not a fil
    e, -w filename tests for writeability, -r filename tests for readability, -x fil
    ename tests for executability
    How do you do Boolean logic operators in shell scripting? ! tests for logical no
    t, -a tests for logical and, and -o tests for logical or.
    How do you find out the number of arguments passed to the shell script? $#
    Whats a way to do multilevel if-elses in shell scripting? if {condition} then {sta
    tement} elif {condition} {statement} fi
    How do you write a for loop in shell? for {variable name} in {list} do {statemen
    t} done
    How do you write a while loop in shell? while {condition} do {statement} done
    How does a case statement look in shell scripts? case {variable} in {possible-va
    lue-1}) {statement};; {possible-value-2}) {statement};; esac
    How do you read keyboard input in shell scripts? read {variable-name}
    How do you define a function in a shell script? function-name() { #some code her
    e return }
    How does getopts command work? The parameters to your script can be passed as -n
    15 -x 20. Inside the script, you can iterate through the getopts array as while
    getopts n:x option, and the variable $option contains the value of the entered
    option.
    Read more: http://www.wikiconsole.com/wiki/?p=5634#ixzz2YRosjeOC

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