MCQ

1. Which symbol will be used with grep command to match the pattern pat at the beginning of
a line?
A) ^pat
B) $pat
C) pat$
D) pat^
Answer : A
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2. Which command is used to sort the lines of data in a file in reverse order
A) sort
B) sh
C) st
D) sort -r
Answer : D
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3. Which command is used to display the top of the file?

A) cat
B) head
C) more
D) grep
Answer : B
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4. Which command is used to copy all files having the string chap and any two characters after
that to the progs directory?
A) cp chap?? progs
B) cp chap* progs
C) cp chap[12] /progs/*.*
D) cp chap?? /progs/*
Answer : A
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5. Which command is used to change protection mode of files starting with the string emp and

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ending with 1,2, or 3?

A) chmod u+x emp[1-3]
B) chmod 777 emp*
C) chmod u+r ??? emp
D) chmod 222 emp?
Answer : A
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6. Which command is used to remove a directory?

A) rd
B) rmdir
C) dldir
D) rdir
Answer : B
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7. Which of the following keys is used to replace a single character with new text?
A) S
B) s
C) r
D) C
Answer : B
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8. Which command is used to extract specific columns from the file?

A) cat
B) cut
C) grep
D) paste
Answer : B
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9. Which command sends the word count of the file infile to the newfile.
A) wc infile >newfile
B) wc newfile
C) wc infile - newfile

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D) wc infile | newfile
Answer : A
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10. Which command is used to remove the read permission of the file 'note' from both the
group and others?
A) chmod go+r note
B) chmod go+rw note
C) chmod go-x note
D) chmod go-r note
Answer : D
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11. Which of the following commands is used to display the directory attributes rather than its
contents?
A) ls -l -d
B) ls -l
C) ls -x
D) ls -F
Answer : A
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12. Which of the following files will displayed by this command cat *ch*
A) patch
B) catch
C) .ch
D) All of the above
Answer : D
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13. The Octal number to be given alogn with chmod command to make a file readable,
writable and executable to the owner, readable and executable to group and others is:
A) 0
B) 755
C) 744

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D) 555
Answer : B
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14. If you are to use [Control-c] as the interrupt key instead of [Del], then you will have to use
A) tty ^c
B) stty intr ^c
C) stty echoe
D) stty echo ^a
Answer : B
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15. Which of the following is not a communication command.

A) write
B) mesg
C) mail
D) grep
Answer : D
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16. Which of the following keys is used to move the cursor to the end of the paragraph.
A) }
B) {
C) |
D) $
Answer : A
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17. Which command is used to concatenate all files beginning with the string 'emp' and
followed by a non-numeric characters?
A) cat emp[!0-9]
B) more [emp][!0-9]
C) cat emp[x-z]
D) cat emp[a-z]
Answer : A

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18. The command which transcribes the standard input to the standard output and also makes a
copy of the same in a file is
A) tee
B) tr
C) sort
D) grep
Answer : A
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19. Which command is used to remove a file?

A) remove
B) rm
C) mv
D) del
Answer : B
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20. Which symbol is used to separate more than one command in the same command line?
A) $
B) #
C) :
D) ;
Answer : D
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21. The agency that sits between the user and the UNIX system is called the
A) logic
B) profile
C) shell
D) erxc
Answer : C
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22. Which of the following commands is used to update access and modification times of a

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file?
A) grep
B) wc
C) touch
D) cat
Answer : C
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23. Which command is used to count just the number of characters in a file?
A) wc - 1
B) wc -c
C) wc -w
D) wc -r
Answer : B
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24. Which of the following commands is used to list contents of directories?

A) ls
B) lp
C) dir
D) tar
Answer : A
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25. Which command is used to display a file contents in octal form?

A) cd
B) od
C) of
D) oct
Answer : B
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26. Which command will be used with vi editor to insert text to left of cursor?
A) s
B) S
C) a

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D) i
Answer : D
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27. In vi editor, forward search is performed using the command.

A) :pat
B) ?pat
C) /pat
D) All of the above
Answer : C
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28. Which of the following special shell variables is used to process number of the last
background job?
A) $!
B) $#
C) $0
D) $*
Answer : A
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29. Which option will be used with ps command to slow the entire command line of the
process being run?
A) -4
B) #NAME?
C) -1
D) -2
Answer : B
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30. Which of the following command addresses all users who are currently hooked on?
A) write
B) mail
C) wall
D) mesg

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Answer : C
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31. Which option is used with rm command to make the command prompt the user with each
filename and a ?, before acting on it
A) -r
B) #NAME?
C) #NAME?
D) -1
Answer : C
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32. Which of the following directories contain all the Alias created by a user, including his
login directory?
A) /tmp
B) /etc
C) /usr
D) /dev
Answer : C
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33. Which of the following commands is used to obtain a list of all files by modification time?
A) ls -1
B) ls -t
C) ls -i
D) ls -R
Answer : B
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34. The % key allows you

A) to move the cursor to a matching delimiter, when a delimiters a parenthesis, a bracket, or a
brace.
B) to move the cursor to the upperleft corner of the screen
C) to move the cursor backward to the beginning of a word
D) to move the cursor to the first column in the current line

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Answer : A
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35. Which command is used to display the characteristics of a process?

A) pid
B) du
C) ps
D) au
Answer : C
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36. Which of the following commands is used to identify the type of file by context?
A) ls
B) cat
C) file
D) more
Answer : C
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37. The field separator in cut command is specified with

A) #NAME?
B) #NAME?
C) -r option
D) #NAME?
Answer : B
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38. Which of the following options will be used to display number of blocks used by a file?
A) -c
B) #NAME?
C) #NAME?
D) #NAME?
Answer : D
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39. Which command is used to make all files and sub-directories in the directory (progs)

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executable by all users?

A) chmod -R a+x progs
B) chmod -R 222 progs
C) chmod -1 a+x progs
D) chmod -x a+x progs
Answer : A
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40. Which command is used to display and create files?

A) cat
B) vi
C) ed
D) lyrix
Answer : A
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41. The second set of the three permissions (r-) indicates that
A) group has read permission only
B) other has read permission only
C) owner has read permission only
D) group has write permission only
Answer : A
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42. Which column contains all details of the permissions of a file when you issue the ls -l
command?
A) second
B) fourth
C) third
D) first
Answer : D
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43. Which of the following commands is used to display your working directory?
A) dir
B) prompt $p$g

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C) pwd
D) path
Answer : C
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44. While working with mail command, which command is used to save mail in a separate
file?
A) s
B) r
C) w
D) d
Answer : A
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45. The command used to compare the files is known as

A) comp
B) cmp
C) do
D) ccp
Answer : B
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46. Which command is used to terminate a process?

A) shutdown
B) haltsys
C) cancel
D) kill
Answer : D
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47. The cp command uses:

A) standard input file
B) standard output file
C) both input and output file
D) neither standard input nor standard output file
Answer : D

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48. Which of the following files contains information related to password aging?
A) Shadow
B) password
C) profile
D) All the three
Answer : B
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49. Which command will be used with vi editor to replace text from cursor to right?
A) r
B) R
C) s
D) S
Answer : B
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50. Which of the following commands is used to rename a file?

A) rename
B) remove
C) mv
D) ren
Answer : C
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