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Q 1 - What is PPID?
A - Previous process identification
B - Priority process identification
Answer : C
Explanation
The parent process id of a child process.
Q 2 - How does a comment can begin in a shell script file.
Answer : A
Explanation
A comment line begin with # (pound symbol) and is ignored by the shell.
Q 3 - Choose the correct from below to search for lines beginning with the pattern using grep.
Answer : A
Explanation
The pattern can be enclosed in single quotes to suppress meaning of all the meta-characters special meanings.
Answer : A
Explanation
Q 5 - Which option can be used with ‘chmod’ to apply permission bits recursively on all the files.
Answer : B
Explanation
Q 6 - Which command can be used to create links for file/directory?
Answer : B
Explanation
ln is the command used to create hard/soft link for a file and hard link for a directory.
Q 7 - Command ‘sed’ is used for __
Answer : D
Explanation
sed is one of the early Unix commands built for command line processing of data files.
Q 8 - What are the options used to list the contents of a .tar file?
Answer : B
Explanation
‘t’ to list out, ‘v’ is verbose mode & ‘f’ for target file.
Q 9 - What is the output of the command ‘umask –S’?
A - Shows mask value using symbolic notion.
B - Shows mask value using octal values
Answer : A
Explanation
Q 10 - Out of the following which can place in home directory?
Answer : C
Explanation