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18 Unix General Questions and Answers:
1 :: Finding the presence of a word in a list of n files (pattern matching)?
sed -n '/matchingpattern/g' file1 file2...
2 :: Explain command to view process running?
use ps command "process status". I will use "ps -ef" to
list every process in detail.
list every process in detail.
3 :: Explain command to show the space allocation of files?
df -h----- it shows the space alocation for oracle dsata file.
olny for space alocation execute command ll -lrth.
olny for space alocation execute command ll -lrth.
4 :: Explain command to display different lines that are found when compare two files?
diff file1 file2
Above command will display all the lines which r diff in
file1 & file2 whereas, cmp will only display 1st occurance
of difference.
Above command will display all the lines which r diff in
file1 & file2 whereas, cmp will only display 1st occurance
of difference.
5 :: How to move a background job to forward?
./test.pl&
jobs -- get job id of the above process
[3] Running ./test.pl &
fg 3
jobs -- get job id of the above process
[3] Running ./test.pl &
fg 3
6 :: What is grep|sort give example?
grep stands as Globally Search for Regular Expression
and Print.
It is used for displaying the pattern matching lines from
requested file or files .
and Print.
It is used for displaying the pattern matching lines from
requested file or files .
7 :: Suppose i have one column with data smith
john
michale
the o/p should be smith,john, michale how we do in unix?
Suppose they are asking for displaying just one of the
columns in a directory, make a note of that column number
as it appears when we do a ls -lrt. Then we can use awk to
just display the one columns as o/p.
If column number is n, then do this:
ls -lrt | awk '{print $n}'
columns in a directory, make a note of that column number
as it appears when we do a ls -lrt. Then we can use awk to
just display the one columns as o/p.
If column number is n, then do this:
ls -lrt | awk '{print $n}'
8 :: What will be the result if we run the command #find /tmp -mtime -2 and #find /tmp -mtime +2?
find /tmp -mtime n where n can be +ve or -ve
+n says, file modified in last n days
-n says, file modified more than n days ago
ex. if today is 5th of a month
file1 has mtime 3rd
file2 has mtime 2nd
then find . -mtime 2 will report file1
then find . -mtime -2 will report file2 only
+n says, file modified in last n days
-n says, file modified more than n days ago
ex. if today is 5th of a month
file1 has mtime 3rd
file2 has mtime 2nd
then find . -mtime 2 will report file1
then find . -mtime -2 will report file2 only
9 :: What is the difference between NFS 3 and NFS 4? What are new features added in NFS4?
nfsv3 acces through udp protocol whereas nfsv4 acces through
TCP/IP protocol
TCP/IP protocol
10 :: How to use grep command to list find the records of a file containing 10 different strings?
grep 'word1|word2' <filename>