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Old 04-26-2014
UNIX Questions for exam

Hello,

I am a newbie in Unix. I have certification exam tomorrow. I have got doubts while preparing and I have listed down all my questions here.

Please help me to clear my certification.

Questions:
1)Simple form of synchronization between parent and child.int wait (int * statloc );
2)The UNIX system provides several system calls to create and end program, to send and receive software interrupts, to
3)Which option is used with rm command to make the command prompt the user with each filename and a ?, before acting on
4)What are environmental variables?
5)What does the which command display?
6)A branch of computer Science and Engineering that deals with the structure of the machine like memory, I/O processor,


7)To send the output of the command to a file and to the screen we use the:




8)What feature is used to execute a command and place the output in a variable?


9)To execute a Bourne shell script in the current directory which doesn't have execute permission, command is:




10)catemp.lst | sort | tee temp | uniq | cut d " " f2
output of the program


11)The group of the file and the group of the directory is always the same for all new files created when:


12)Choose a valid Logical Test expression to check a non-numeric value with another value.


13)If programmer wants to repeat identical part of their program, __________ permit the programmers to define an
macros


14)In the output of ls -l if the first character is an s the file type is:

Thanks in advance!! Smilie

Regards,
Ganesh B

Last edited by Gbabuu; 04-26-2014 at 10:21 AM..
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