Explore topic-wise MCQs in Unix.

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151.

Which option is used by the sort command to redirect the output to a specified file ?

A. -n
B. -t
C. -o
D. -u
Answer» C. -o
152.

Which option is used by the sort command to redirect the output to a specified file?

A. -n
B. -t
C. -o
D. -u
Answer» D. -u
153.

_____ option is used with sort command for removing repeated lines.

A. -n
B. -u
C. -t
D. -a
Answer» C. -t
154.

Which option is used when we’ve to sort files containing only numbers?

A. -n
B. -a
C. -d
D. -u
Answer» B. -a
155.

Which option is used with paste command for joining lines?

A. -s
B. -c
C. -a
D. -e
Answer» B. -c
156.

____ option is used with paste command if we want to specify our own delimiter.

A. -d
B. -c
C. -a
D. -e
Answer» B. -c
157.

Which command is used for pasting files?

A. cut
B. paste
C. tail
D. head
Answer» C. tail
158.

The expression cut -c -3 emp.lst will cut columns number ___

A. 3
B. 1
C. 1-3
D. 0
Answer» D. 0
159.

Which option is used with the tail command for extracting bytes instead of lines?

A. -f
B. -n
C. -c
D. -a
Answer» D. -a
160.

Which option is used with the head command to specify line count to display?

A. -a
B. -h
C. -n
D. -o
Answer» D. -o
161.

By default, how many lines are displayed using the head command?

A. 5
B. 10
C. 4
D. 20
Answer» C. 4
162.

Which command is used for displaying the beginning of a file?

A. pr
B. head
C. begin
D. lp
Answer» C. begin
163.

___ operator is used with pr command to start printing from a specific page.

A.
B. #
C. +
D. &
Answer» D. &
164.

Which of the following operator is used with find command for performing the negate function?

A. -a
B. -o
C. &&
D. !
Answer» E.
165.

Which of the following command will be used to locate those files that have not been modified for more than a year?

A. find . -mtime 1
B. find . -mtime 1 year -print
C. find . -mtime +365 -print
D. find . -mtime -365 -print
Answer» D. find . -mtime -365 -print
166.

To specify permissions while using find command we have to use _____ option.

A. -perm
B. -inum
C. -name
D. -type
Answer» B. -inum
167.

Which option is used with find command to search for files based on access time?

A. -atime
B. -mtime
C. -time
D. -type
Answer» B. -mtime
168.

The syntax of the find command is _________

A. find path_list selection_criteria action
B. find action path_list selection_criteria
C. find selection_criteria action path
D. find path action
Answer» B. find action path_list selection_criteria
169.

The default permissions for a regular file are ____ and for directories are __

A. 777, 666
B. 666, 777
C. 000, 000
D. 777, 777
Answer» C. 000, 000
170.

We can change the default permission set for files and directories using __

A. umask
B. um
C. perm
D. touch
Answer» B. um
171.

Which option is used with ln command to create a soft link?

A. -a
B. -l
C. -s
D. -e
Answer» D. -e
172.

When we can access a file with multiple filenames, it is said that the file has multiple ____

A. names
B. inode number
C. links
D. uid
Answer» D. uid
173.

Every file is associated with a table which contains all possible information about a file, that table is called as _____

A. info table
B. file table
C. inode
D. ps table
Answer» D. ps table
174.

Every file system has a directory structure headed by ___

A. parent
B. child
C. root
D. kernel
Answer» D. kernel
175.

Which one of the following command will search history list for previous command having the last occurrence of string cvf?

A. /cvf
B. /cvf [enter]
C. /bkw
D. !cvf
Answer» B. /cvf [enter]
176.

Which symbol is used as a shorthand for using the last argument to the previous command?

A. %
B. _
C. |
D. $
Answer» E.
177.

Which of the following symbols are used for accessing previous commands by event numbers?

A. !
B. r
C. $
D. ! and r
Answer» E.
178.

To display the last five used commands, which one of the following commands is used (in bash shell)?

A. history 5
B. history -5
C. history
D. history 5-
Answer» B. history -5
179.

Which escape sequence is used with PS1 to show the hostname of our computer?

A. \n
B. \c
C. \h
D. \e
Answer» D. \e
180.

Which command is used in bash and Korn shells to display the previously used commands?

A. his
B. history
C. sh
D. ps
Answer» C. sh
181.

Which symbol is used for setting the PS1 prompt to show the current event number?

A. ^
B. !
C. &
D. |
Answer» C. &
182.

Which of the following shells support the use of aliases?

A. bourne
B. Korn
C. bash
D. Korn and bash
Answer» E.
183.

____ command displays all the variables available in the current shell.

A. env
B. set
C. var
D. sh
Answer» C. var
184.

The shell has ____ prompts.

A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. many
Answer» C. 4
185.

Which one of the following command will change our primary prompt from $ to C> ?

A. PS1=”C> “
B. PS2=”C>”
C. PS1=”>C”
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Answer» B. PS2=”C>”
186.

____ command is used to display the environment variables only.

A. set
B. env
C. sh
D. var
Answer» C. sh
187.

To find out how efficiently a program a used the system resources, which command is used?

A. sys
B. time
C. crontab
D. daemon
Answer» C. crontab
188.

Which of the following command will remove the current crontab?

A. crontab -p
B. crontab -l
C. crontab -e
D. crontab -r
Answer» E.
189.

What is cron?

A. a simple process
B. an orphan process
C. a daemon
D. a zombie process
Answer» D. a zombie process
190.

What is a daemon?

A. process whose parent has died
B. process who has completed its execution but still has an entry in the process table
C. process which is running infinitely
D. process which runs automatically without any user interaction
Answer» E.
191.

Which command permits to schedule jobs for later execution, as soon as the system load permits?

A. at
B. %
C. batch
D. cron
Answer» D. cron
192.

Jobs scheduled using batch command can be removed using ___ option.

A. -a
B. -d
C. -f
D. -r
Answer» E.
193.

To remove a job from the queue, which option is used with at command?

A. -r
B. -l
C. -e
D. -t
Answer» B. -l
194.

Which one of the following forms used with at command is invalid?

A. at noon
B. at now +2 years
C. at 3:07 + 1 day
D. at morning
Answer» E.
195.

We can list the jobs queued using at command by using ____ option.

A. -p
B. -v
C. -l
D. -r
Answer» D. -r
196.

We can use the _____ symbol with at command to redirect our output to a specified file

A. >
B. <
C. >>
D. %
Answer» B. <
197.

Which of the following is not a part of job control facilities?

A. relate a job to the background
B. bring it back to the foreground
C. kill a job
D. create a new job
Answer» E.
198.

Which command is used to list the status of jobs?

A. fg
B. JOBS
C. jobs
D. fg
Answer» D. fg
199.

___ command will bring the background jobs to the foreground.

A. bg
B. fg
C. ctrl-Z
D. kill
Answer» C. ctrl-Z
200.

nice command is a ______ command in C shell.

A. internal
B. external
C. built-in
D. directory
Answer» D. directory