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Basic shell scripting questions

By admin | July 22, 2007

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How do you find out whats your shell? - echo $SHELL Whats the command to find out todays date? - date Whats the command to find out users on the system? - who How do you find out the current directory youre in? - pwd How do you remove a file? - rm How do you remove a - rm -rf How do you find out your own username? - whoami How do you send a mail message to somebody? - mail somebody@techinterviews.com -s Your subject -c cc@techinterviews.com How do you count words, lines and characters in a file? - wc How do you search for a string inside a given file? - grep string filename How do you search for a string inside a directory? - grep string * How do you search for a string in a directory with the subdirectories recursed? grep -r string * What are PIDs? - They are process IDs given to processes. A PID can vary from 0 to 65535. How do you list currently running process? - ps How do you stop a process? - kill pid How do you find out about all running processes? - ps -ag How do you stop all the processes, except the shell window? - kill 0 How do you fire a process in the background? - ./process-name & How do you refer to the arguments passed to a shell script? - $1, $2 and so on. $0 is your script name. Whats the conditional statement in shell scripting? - if {condition} then fi How do you do number comparison in shell scripts? - -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, -ge How do you test for file properties in shell scripts? - -s filename tells you if the file is not empty, -f filename tells you whether the argument is a file, and not a directory, -d filename tests if the argument is a directory, and not a file, -w filename tests for writeability, -r filename tests for readability, -x filename tests for executability How do you do Boolean logic operators in shell scripting? - ! tests for logical not, a tests for logical and, and -o tests for logical or. How do you find out the number of arguments passed to the shell script? - $# Whats a way to do multilevel if-elses in shell scripting? - if {condition} then {statement} elif {condition} {statement} fi How do you write a for loop in shell? - for {variable name} in {list} do {statement} done How do you write a while loop in shell? - while {condition} do {statement} done How does a case statement look in shell scripts? - case {variable} in {possiblevalue-1}) {statement};; {possible-value-2}) {statement};; esac How do you read keyboard input in shell scripts? - read {variable-name} How do you define a function in a shell script? - function-name() { #some code here return } How does getopts command work? - The parameters to your script can be passed as -n 15 -x 20. Inside the script, you can iterate through the getopts array as while getopts n:x option, and the variable $option contains the value of the entered option.
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Eswara moorthy
Posted 8/10/2007 at 5:37 pm | Permalink

How do u find the process ID for all services?? pgrep eg:pgrep mysql

teacher
Posted 8/17/2007 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

1) There are many shell scripting languages based on the shell being used. 2) Syntax for the scripting is based on the shell. 3) The syntax above would work for Bourne shell but many would not work for the C shell csh.

Shiv
Posted 10/26/2007 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

find ./ -exec grep string {} \;

Adam
Posted 3/5/2008 at 4:42 pm | Permalink

Hey guys im just wondering. im thinking about getting into game scripting and basic C++ does anyone have any tips for how to get started in something like this or computer science?

Comptan
Posted 6/25/2008 at 11:11 am | Permalink

What happens to a child process that dies and has no parent process to

wait for it and whats bad about this?

g.chalapathi
Posted 9/6/2008 at 7:54 am | Permalink

What is difference betwen shell scripting language and programing language ?

c sivakumar
Posted 11/1/2008 at 6:43 am | Permalink

We can take an example in solaris. If parent process dies while running child process below said things may happen:After complition of childs process task it will search the parent process if there is no parent process it may go defunct status and its status will be zombie mode. It will take swap space & memory space and also take load average. Rspective parent process cant not execute the particular child process in next instance. In this situation we have to kill that respective child process by manually.

c sivakumar
Posted 11/1/2008 at 6:45 am | Permalink

If parent process dies while running child process below said things may happen:After complition of childs process task it will search the parent process if there is no parent process it may go defunct status and its status will be zombie mode. It will take swap space & memory space and also take load average. Rspective parent process cant not execute the particular child process in next instance. In this situation we have to kill that respective child process by manually.

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