10 Core Linux Interview Questions and Answers

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10 Core Linux Interview Questions 1. You need to define a macro, a key binding for the existing command. How would you do it? Answer : There is a command called bind, in bash shell which is capable of defining macro, or binding a key. In order to bind a key with an existing command, we need to generate Character Sequence emitted by the key. Press Ctrl+v and then key F12, I got ^[[24~

[[email protected] ~]# bind '"\e[24~":"date"'

Note : Different types of terminals or terminal emulators can emit different codes for the same key.

2. A user is new to Linux and he wants to know full list of available commands, what would you suggest him? Answer : A command ‘compgen ­c’ will show a full list of available commands.

[[email protected] ~]$ compgen -c

l.
ll
ls
which
if
then
else
elif
fi
case
esac
for
select
while
until
do
done
...

3. Your assistant needs to print directory stack, what would you suggest? Answer : The Linux command ‘dirs’, will print the directory stack.

[[email protected] ~]# dirs

/usr/share/X11

4. You have lots of running jobs, how would you remove all the running processes, without restarting the machine? Answer : The Linux command ‘disown -r’ will remove all the running Processes. 5. What does the command ‘hash’ is used for in bash Shell? Answer : Linux command ‘hash’ manages internal hash table, fins and remember full path of the specified command, Display used command names and number of times the command is used.

[[email protected] ~]# hash

hits    command
   2    /bin/ls
   2    /bin/su

6. Which built­in Linux command performs arithmetic operation of Integers in Bash? Answer : The ‘let’ command that performs, arithmetic operation of integer in bash shell.

#! /bin/bash

...

...

let c=a+b

...

...

7. You have a large text file, and you need to see one page at a time. What will you do? Answer : You can achieve the above result by pipeling the output of ‘cat file_name.txt’ with ‘more’ command.

[[email protected] ~]# cat file_name.txt | more

8. Who own the data dictionary? Answer : The user ‘SYS’ owns the data dictionary. Users ‘SYS’ and ‘SYSEM are created by default, automatically. 9. How to know a command summary and useability in Linux?

Assume you came across a command in /bin directory, which you are completely unaware of, and have no idea what it does. What will you do to know its useability?

Answer : The command ‘whatis’ display a summary of its useability from the man page. For example, you would like to see a summary of ‘zcat’ command which you don’t know previously.

[[email protected] ~]# whatis zcat

zcat [gzip]          (1)  - compress or expand files

10. What command should you use to check the number of files and disk space used by each user’s defined quotas? Answer : The command ‘repquota’ comes to rescue here. Command repquota summaries quotas for a file system.

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