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Sun Microsystems Solaris OS Interview Questions

This document lists 30 Solaris OS interview questions related to commands for listing files, searching files, monitoring processes and disk usage, networking tools, and more. Example commands provided include ls, grep, find, netstat, top, and others. The questions cover topics like sorting files by size, searching for strings, tailing log files, changing directories, and getting disk usage statistics.

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Sun Microsystems Solaris OS Interview Questions

This document lists 30 Solaris OS interview questions related to commands for listing files, searching files, monitoring processes and disk usage, networking tools, and more. Example commands provided include ls, grep, find, netstat, top, and others. The questions cover topics like sorting files by size, searching for strings, tailing log files, changing directories, and getting disk usage statistics.

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Sun Microsystems Solaris OS interview questions

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 July 2007 02:49 Written by admin Saturday, 21 July 2007
02:49

Following are some Sun Microsystems Solaris OS interview questions, can you answer
them??

1. List the files in current directory sorted by size ? – ls -l | grep ^- | sort -nr
2. List the hidden files in current directory ? – ls -a1 | grep “^\.”
3. Delete blank lines in a file ? – cat sample.txt | grep -v ‘^$’ > new_sample.txt
4. Search for a sample string in particular files ? - grep .Debug. *.confHere grep uses
the string .Debug. to search in all files with extension..conf. under current directory.
5. Display the last newly appending lines of a file during appendingdata to the same file
by some processes ? – tail .f Debug.logHere tail shows the newly appended data into
Debug.log by some processes/user.
6. Display the Disk Usage of file sizes under each directory in currentDirectory ? – du -k
* | sort .nr (or) du .k . | sort -nr
7. Change to a directory, which is having very long name ? – cd CDMA_3X_GEN*Here
original directory name is . .CDMA_3X_GENERATION_DATA..
8. Display the all files recursively with path under current directory ? – find . -depth
-print
9. Set the Display automatically for the current new user ? – export DISPLAY=`eval
‘who am i | cut -d”(” -f2 | cut -d”)” -f1′`Here in above command, see single quote,
double quote, grave ascent is used. Observe carefully.
10. Display the processes, which are running under yourusername ? – ps .aef | grep
MaheshvjHere, Maheshvj is the username.
11. List some Hot Keys for bash shell ? – Ctrl+l . Clears the Screen. Ctrl+r . Does a
search in previously given commands in shell. Ctrl+u – Clears the typing before the
hotkey. Ctrl+a . Places cursor at the beginning of the command at shell. Ctrl+e . Places
cursor at the end of the command at shell. Ctrl+d . Kills the shell. Ctrl+z . Places the
currently running process into background.
12. Display the files in the directory by file size ? – ls .ltr | sort .nr .k 5
13. How to save man pages to a file ? – man | col .b > Example : man top | col .b >
top_help.txt
14. How to know the date & time for . when script is executed ? – Add the following
script line in shell script.eval echo “Script is executed at `date`” >> timeinfo.infHere,
.timeinfo.inf. contains date & time details ie., when script is executed and history related
to execution.
15. How do you find out drive statistics ? – iostat -E
16. Display disk usage in Kilobytes ? – du -k
17. Display top ten largest files/directories ? – du -sk * | sort -nr | head
18. How much space is used for users in kilobytes ? – quot -af
19. How to create null file ? – cat /dev/null > filename1
20. Access common commands quicker ? – ps -ef | grep -i $@
21. Display the page size of memory ? – pagesize -a
22. Display Ethernet Address arp table ? – arp -a
23. Display the no.of active established connections to localhost ? – netstat -a | grep
EST
24. Display the state of interfaces used for TCP/IP traffice ? – netstat -i
25. Display the parent/child tree of a process ? - ptree Example: ptree 1267
26. Show the working directory of a process ? – pwdx Example: pwdx 1267
27. Display the processes current open files ? – pfiles Example: pfiles 1267
28. Display the inter-process communication facility status ? – ipcs
29. Display the top most process utilizing most CPU ? - top .b 1
30. Alternative for top command ? - prstat -a

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