1. What is shell?

2. What are the different types of commonly used shell on a typical Linux system?
3. What is the equivalent of a file shortcut that we have on windows on a Linux system?
4. What is the difference between soft and hard links?
5. How will you pass and access arguments to a script in Linux.
6. What is the significance of $#?
7. What is the difference between $* and &@?
8. How will you find the 99th line of a file using only tail and head command>
9. Explain about s permission bit in a file?
10. I want to create a directory such that anyone in the group can create a file and
access any persons file in it but none should be able to delete a file other than
the one created by himself.
11. How can you find out how long the system has been running?
12. How can any user find out all information about a specific user like his default
shell, real life name, default directory,when and how long he has been using
the sytem?
13. What is the difference between $$ and $!?
14. What are zombie processes?
15. How will you copy file from one machine to other?
16. I want to monitor a continuously updating log file, what command can be used
to most efficiently achieve this?
17. I want to connect to a remote server and execute some commands, how can I
achieve this?
18. Write a script to print the first 10 element of Fibonacci series.
19. What are the 3 standard streams in Linux?
20. I want to read all input to the command from file1 direct all output to file2 and
error to file 3, how can I achieve this?
21. What will happen to my current process when I execute a command using
exec?
22. Write down the syntax of for loop?
23. How will you find the total disk space used by a specific user?
24. How can we find the process name from its process id?
25. What are the four fundamental components of every file system on linux?
26. What is a boot block?
27. What is a super block?
28. What is an inode block?
29. How do we create command aliases in shell?
30. What are c and b permission fields of a file?
31. What are the various stages of a linux process it passes through?
32. What are the disadvantages of shell scripting?
33. What are the different types of variables used in shell script?
34. What are the advantages of shell scripting?
35. Why is the use of shell script?
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