1) The User interacts with the Unix system or applications using 
_____

a) Hardware
b) Shell
c) Device drivers
d) Compiler

Answer: b) Shell



2) Select the features of an Unix Shell

a) Unix Shell is a command interpreter
b) Unix shell scripts can help in automation
c) Like any programming languages, Unix shell supports variables, 
conditional statements, functions, array etc.
d) All of the above

Answer: d) All of the above


3) Will the following script produce errors?

#!/bin/ksh

until=1
while [$until=1]
do
  echo "skfsi"
done

a) Yes
b) No

Answer: a) Yes

They have error coz script shld be while [ $until=1 ] i.e with spaces near the bracket

4) Which of the following is valid syntax for UNIX commands?

a) Command name followed by arguments
b) Command name followed by options
c) Command name, followed by options, followed by arguments
d) all of the above

Answer: d) all of the above

5) Which of the following command is used to select first 5 lines 
from a file?

a) head o5 filename
b) head +5 filename
c) head 5 filename
d) head -5 filename

Answer: d) head -5 filename

6) What will be the output of the following shell scripts snippet?
(Here - represents assignment operator)


#!/bin/bash


n-"Test"
echo $n "$n"1 $n1


a) Test n1 1
b) Test $n1 n1
c) Test Test1
d) Test Test1 Test1

Answer: c) Test Test1


7) Which of the commands provides information on UNIX documentation?

a) man
b) whatis
c) apropos
d) All of the above

Answer: d) man

8) The User executes the following commands:

	$ export VAR1=Wipro
	$ echo $VAR1
	Wipro
	$ /bin/bash
	$ echo $VAR1
	xxxxx
	$ export VAR1=India
	$ exit
	$ echo $VAR1
	yyyyy

In the above, what would be printed in place of xxxxx and yyyyy?

a) NULL, Wipro
b) Wipro, India
c) Wipro, Wipro
d) Wipro, NULL

Answer: Wipro, Wipro

9) Which of the following shell variables is used to set the secondary prompt?
Note: Seondary prompt is also known as Continuation Interactive prompt

a) $PROMPT
b) $PS2
c) $INS
d) $HOME

Answer: b) $PS2

10) What will be the output of the following shell script snippet?
(Here = represents assignemnt Operator)

n="Test"
echo $n "$n"1 '$n'1

a) Test Test1 $n1
b) Test $n1 n1
c) Test n1 1
d) Test Test1 Test1

Answer: a) Test Test1 $n1

11) Which of the following is true about environment variables?

a) Environment variables can be set and must be exported to be available globally
b) They can be listed using the printerv command
c) An environment variable defined in child shell will not be available in the parent shell
d) All of the above

Answer: All of the above

12) The exit status of the typical Unix command will usually have a value of ?

a) 0 if successful and non-zero on failure
b) Non zero if successful and 0 on failure
c) 1 if successful and -1 on failure
d) -1 if successful and 1 on failure

Answer: a) 0 if successful and Non-zero on failure

13) Consider the following shell program

	if [ $# -eq 0 ]
	then 
		echo "Usage: give multiple integers"
		exit 1
	fi
	output=0
	Until [ $# -eq 0 ]
	do
		output='expr $output + $1'
		shift
	done
	echo $output

What will be the output of the above program when inputs are given as:
	program 16 23 44 70 0 50

a) 16
b) 50
c) 203

Answer: c) 203 (Addition of all the arguments)

14) What is the command used to allow the members of your working group to write to Wipro.file without impacting the permissions of non-group users?

a) chmod +w Wipro.file
b) chmod u+x Wipro.file
c) chmod g|w Wipro.file
d) chmod g+w Wipro.file

Answer: d) chmod g+w Wipro.file

15) The Current directory is /home/user1/mydir.
if the following commands are executed on the shell, what will be the output?

	pwd=`pwd`
	cd ..
	echo `pwd` $pwd

a) /home/user1 /home/user1/mydir
b) /home/user1/mydir /home/user1/mydir
c) pwd /home/user1
d) /home/user1/mydir /home/user1

Answer: a) /home/user1 /home/user1/mydir

16) What is the output of command "cd/" in Unix

a) It will change to user directory
b) It will change to root directory
c) It will change to device directory
d) It will change to etc directory

Answer: b) It will change to root directory

17) What is the output of following command basename /usr/bin/wipro/wipro.txt

a) /usr/bin/wipro
b) /usr/
c) wipro.txt
d) None of the above

Answer: c) wipro.txt

18) The exit status of the last command executed is referred by the shell variable

a) $!
b) $"
c) $&
d) $?

Answer: d) $?

19) Command used to list all the shell variables

a) act
b) disp
c) print
d) none of the above

Answer: a) act

20) What kill$! will do?
kill the last processed nbr

21) chown command is used for?

22) Foo${newvar} BAR - What is the output if newvar=wipro

23) What command is used to read the content of the file?

a) cat
b) fetch
c) both
d) display

24) Filename ends with $$ represents?

6) How the path will be specified in environment file?

a) look
b) manpath
c) Path
d) dir

Answer: ?

-- getting lot of question on the above.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Permissions.html

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Ashmita:

1) Asuming the command line arguments to be first second third, what would be the output of the following script

#!/bin/ksh
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
 last="$@"
 shift
done
echo $last

a) &nbsp,first second third
b) first second
c) first
d) third

Answer: d) third

2) what will be the output of the following script snippet?

(( 6>9 ))
echo "$?"

a) 0
b) 1
c) 127
d) Error

Answer: b) 1

3) All Unix command invoked by user are interpreted by

a) Hardware
b) Shell
c) Device Drivers
d) Compiler

Answer: b) Shell

4) $# is a built-in shell variable that holds

a) exit status of the last command executed
b) number of command line args
c) name of the shell script
d) None of the above

Answer: b) number of command line args

5) What value does $# have?. if the shell script called "testscript" is executed as

	$ ./testscript arg1 arg2

a) testscript  arg1  arg2
2) arg1 arg2
c) 2
d) 3

Answer: c) 2

6) What will be the statement to print only the 7th line from a file using head and tail commands

a) head -7 |tail -7 filename
b) tail -7 filename
c) head -7 filename|tail -1

Answer: head -7 filename|tail -1

1) cat file1 file2 - displays content of both file1 and file2
2) df command - Disk Free
3) du command - shows the disk usage of the files and directories
4) KILL$!: answer covered above
5) $!
6) $# - aruguments one two three "four and five". How many no of arguments . Answer: 4
7) foo(((5+3*2) - 4)+1). What is $#?
8) Case Syntax
9) x=c;
   y=c;
   echo $$x $$$y
What is printed if the current PID is 1234

a) 1234x 1234y
b) xc
c) 1234x 1234c
d) $x $$y

Answer: 1234x 1234c

10) Which command is used to know if the process is running

a) ps
b) ls
c) awk

answer: ps

12) exp var= ( This is Unix Unix assessment )
    $ echo ${myvar[3]}

Answer:

13) echo `set r w x`; IFS="-"; echo "$*"

a)rwx
b)r w x
c)r-w-x

Answer:

14) Which options can be used in chmod
a) + or - or =
b) *
c)
d)

15) What will be the ouptput of the below program,

echo "Process Killed"
kill $$
echo "Process not killed"

a) First echo will be printed
b) second echo statement will be printed
c) both the echo statement will be printed
d) none of the above

Answer: Both the echo statement will be printed

16) How to perform addition of numbers. parameters passed as 3 and 4

a) a = $3 + $4
b) a = 3 + 4
c) a = `expr $1 + $2`

Answer: c) a = `expr $1 + $2`

17) Terminal command

a) $PATH
b) $TERM
c) $TERMINAL
d) $CMD

Answer: $TERM
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1) CHOWNER with * gives
2) echo 'set r w x: IFS='-'; echo "$*"'
3) $ Temp="wipro". If you need this variable to be assigned with the value, u will? ($ and then space)
	a) set&nbsp--- something like this
4) Test command is used to compare
	a) Strings
	b) Numerics
	c) State of file
	d) All
5) unset is used as
	a) unset a=10
	b) unset a
	c) unset var a
	d) unset $a
Answer: d) unset $a

unset is used to delete the variables during program execution

6) What will :$((cnt=cnt+1)) do?
7) If ls > /tmp/xx.$$ , then $$ takes
	a) pid
	b) No. of arguement
	c) Login
	d) Name
Answer: pid


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Variable	Description
$0	The filename of the current script.
$n	These variables correspond to the arguments with which a script was invoked. Here n is a positive decimal number corresponding to the position of an argument (the first argument is $1, the second argument is $2, and so on).
$#	The number of arguments supplied to a script.
$*	All the arguments are double quoted. If a script receives two arguments, $* is equivalent to $1 $2.
$@	All the arguments are individually double quoted. If a script receives two arguments, $@ is equivalent to $1 $2.
$?	The exit status of the last command executed.
$$	The process number of the current shell. For shell scripts, this is the process ID under which they are executing.
$!	The process number of the last background command.

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List of Commands


cat - display or concatenate files
cd - change directory
chmod - change the permissions on a file or directory
cp - copy a file
date - display the current date and time
diff - display differences between text files
file - determine the type of a file
find - find files of a specified name or type
ftp - file transfer program
grep - searches files for a specified string or expression
gzip - compress a file
help - display information about bash builtin commands
info - read online documentation
kill - kill a process
lpr - print out a file
ls - list names of files in a directory
man - display an on-line manual page
mkdir - make a directory
more - scan through a text file page by page
mv - move or rename files or directories
nice - change the priority at which a job is being run
passwd - change your password
ps - list processes
pwd - display the name of your current directory
quota - disk quota and usage
rm - remove files or directories
rmdir - remove a directory
sort - sort and collate lines
ssh - secure remote access
tar - create and use archives of files
apropos - Locate commands by keyword lookup
du - Disk Usage
df - Disk Free
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Environment Variables:

Variable Description
DISPLAY - Contains the identifier for the display that X11 programs should use by default.
HOME - Indicates the home directory of the current user: the default argument for the cd built-in command.
IFS - Indicates the Internal Field Separator that is used by the parser for word splitting after expansion.
LANG - LANG expands to the default system locale; LC_ALL can be used to override this. For example, if its value is pt_BR, then the language is set to (Brazilian) Portuguese and the locale to Brazil.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH - On many Unix systems with a dynamic linker, contains a colon-separated list of directories that the dynamic linker should search for shared objects when building a process image after exec, before searching in any other directories.
PATH -  Indicates search path for commands. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands.
PWD -  Indicates the current working directory as set by the cd command.
RANDOM - Generates a random integer between 0 and 32,767 each time it is referenced.
SHLVL  - Increments by one each time an instance of bash is started. This variable is useful for determining whether the built-in exit command ends the current session.
TERM -  Refers to the display type
TZ - Refers to Time zone. It can take values like GMT, AST, etc.

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