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This section includes 25 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Unix knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which of the following is not an internal command for more? |
| A. | q |
| B. | f |
| C. | b |
| D. | z |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
UNIX offers a pager named ____ which has replaced the original pager of UNIX called ____ |
| A. | more, less |
| B. | less, more |
| C. | more, pg |
| D. | pg, more |
| Answer» D. pg, more | |
| 3. |
file command identifies the file type by examining the magic number of the file. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 4. |
Which command is used for knowing the file type? |
| A. | file |
| B. | type |
| C. | filetype |
| D. | type of file |
| Answer» B. type | |
| 5. |
-t option prints the title on the first page. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 6. |
Which option is used for printing multiple copies of a file using lp command? |
| A. | -l |
| B. | -i |
| C. | -t |
| D. | -n |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
Which option is used with lp command if there are more than one printers in the system? |
| A. | -t |
| B. | -d |
| C. | -i |
| D. | -p |
| Answer» C. -i | |
| 8. |
Which command is used for printing a file? |
| A. | lp |
| B. | pr |
| C. | pg |
| D. | more |
| Answer» B. pr | |
| 9. |
What does the following command do? |
| A. | reads word count from sample.txt |
| B. | reads word count from newfile |
| C. | reads word count from sample.txt and write it to newfile |
| D. | error is producedView Answer |
| Answer» D. error is producedView Answer | |
| 10. |
wc command can also work on a data stream. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 11. |
Which option is used for counting the number of characters in a file only. |
| A. | -l |
| B. | -W |
| C. | -c |
| D. | -w |
| Answer» D. -w | |
| 12. |
Which option is used for counting the number of words in a file only? |
| A. | -l |
| B. | -W |
| C. | -c |
| D. | -w |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
Which option is used for counting the number of lines in a file only. |
| A. | -l |
| B. | -W |
| C. | -c |
| D. | -w |
| Answer» B. -W | |
| 14. |
wc command cannot take multiple filenames as arguments. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 15. |
Which command is used for counting words, lines and characters in a file? |
| A. | diff |
| B. | count |
| C. | man |
| D. | wc |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
WHICH_OF_THE_FOLLOWING_IS_AN_ARCHIVAL_PROGRAM??$ |
| A. | arch |
| B. | archive |
| C. | ar |
| D. | tar |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
Which of the following is a better agent than gzip? |
| A. | bzip2 |
| B. | bzip2 and bunzip2 |
| C. | bunzip2 |
| D. | allzip |
| Answer» C. bunzip2 | |
| 18. |
We can provide multiple filenames as arguments to gunzip? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 19. |
We cannot uncompress files using gzip. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 20. |
Which of the following is used for decompressing files? |
| A. | GZIP |
| B. | gunzip |
| C. | uncmp |
| D. | cmp |
| Answer» C. uncmp | |
| 21. |
Which option is used with gzip command for recursive compression? |
| A. | -c |
| B. | -l |
| C. | -d |
| D. | -r |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
We can provide original filenames without .gz extension while checking compression ratio using gzip – l?$ |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 23. |
Which option is used with gzip command to check compression ratio for files? |
| A. | -l |
| B. | -c |
| C. | -e |
| D. | -x |
| Answer» B. -c | |
| 24. |
Which one of the following extension is provided by gzip to the compressed filename? |
| A. | .cm |
| B. | .gz |
| C. | .zip |
| D. | .zp |
| Answer» C. .zip | |
| 25. |
Which of the following is used to compress files? |
| A. | cmp |
| B. | gzip |
| C. | gunzip |
| D. | comm |
| Answer» C. gunzip | |