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Unix Questions

The document provides a comprehensive guide on various UNIX commands and their usage, including file management, permission changes, data manipulation, and process management. It covers commands for listing files, renaming, creating, and removing files, as well as using tools like grep, sed, and cut for data processing. Additionally, it includes examples of scripts and command-line operations for practical applications in UNIX environments.

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Unix Questions

The document provides a comprehensive guide on various UNIX commands and their usage, including file management, permission changes, data manipulation, and process management. It covers commands for listing files, renaming, creating, and removing files, as well as using tools like grep, sed, and cut for data processing. Additionally, it includes examples of scripts and command-line operations for practical applications in UNIX environments.

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UNIX

1. What is ls –ltra
Sol: it displays long listing files based on time stamp and reverse including hidden files
2. How to rename a file abc.dat to xyz.dat
Sol:mv abc.dat xyz.dat
3. Create a file with time stamp 2015-jan-15
Sol:touch –t 2015-01-15-12-34.45 t.txt
4. How to create empty files abc.dat and xyz.dat
Sol:touch abc.dat xyz.dat
5. Remove
a) All files in current directory
Sol:rm*
b) All files in current directory (ask confirmation before delete)
Sol:rm –i *
c) Remove the directory /home/abc (including files under abcdir)
Sol:rm –r /home/abc
6. Find
a) Number of lines in a file
Sol:wc –l t.txt
b) Number of words from 5 to 15 lines
Sol:sed –n 5,15p t.txt | wc -w(or) head -15 t.txt|tail -10|wc -w
c) Number of characters in first 10 lines
Sol:sed –n 1,10p t.txt | wc–c (or) head -10 t.txt|wc -c
7. How to change file permissions to read and write only (no execution )
a) Give read, write and execute permission’s to all the files in only current directory
Sol:chmod 777 *
b) Remove write permissions to file called test.dat
Sol:chmod555 test.dat
c) Give read, write and execute permission’s to all files including subdirectory
Sol:chmod 777 –R *
d) Change the owner of a file from jk123 to xy123
Sol: chown xy123 r.txt
8. Display by using cut and without using cut command for a pipe (“|”) delimiter file
a) First field
Sol:cut –d”|” –f1 l.txt

b) 4th and 5thfields


Sol:cut –d”|” –f4,5 l.txt

c) Last field if file contains 4 fields


Sol:cut –d”,” –f4 l.txt
d) Last filed (if number of fields in each line are not same)
e) from 3 field to 8th filed
sol:cut –d”|” –f3-8 l.txt
9. from the following data
empno,deptno,salary
1,10,5000
2,20,2000
3,10,3000
4,10,4400
5,30,2000
7,20,5005
6, 10, 2600

a) number of employees
Sol: cut –d”,” –f1 n.txt |wc -l
b) number of departments
sol:cut –d”,” –f2 n.txt|sort –u|wc -l
c) number of times department repeated
sol:cut –d”,” –f2 n.txt|sort|uniq -c
d) find duplicated department numbers
Sol:cut –d”,” –f2 n.txt|sort|uniq -d
e) Create a file dept_distinct.dat with the department numbers repeated only once.
Sol:cut –d”,” –f2 n.txt|sort|uniq –u > dept_distinct.dat
f) Create a file with highest salary from each department
g) Create a file with lowest salary from each department
h) Create a file with deptno, no of employees
Sol:cut –d”,” –f2 n.txt|sort|uniq–c> e.txt
10. Display last record using sed command?
Sol:sed –n “$p” t.txt
a) How can u display the 20 records from 50th record?(using sed and without using
sed )
Sol:sed –n “50,70p” n.txt (or) head -70|tail -20
b) Delete the records from 10 to 50 records
Sol:sed“10,50d” t.txt
c) Delete the first line (using sed and without using sed )
Sol:sed “^d” n.txt (or)
d) Delete the last line (using sed and without using sed )
Sol:sed “$d” n.txt
11. Replace Jeevan with Satya
a) Only first occurrence
Sol:sed “s/Jeeavan/Satya/1” s.txt(but not working in mobaxterm)
b) Only second occurrence
Sol:sed “s/Jeeavan/Satya/2” s.txt(but not working in mobaxterm)
c) All occurrences
Sol:sed “s/Jeeavan/Satya/g” s.txt
12. Replace Jeevan(any case) with Satya including subdirectories from the current
directory
Sol:sed“s/jeevan/satya/gi” *
13. display the first 10 records
Sol: head -10 t.txt
14. display the last 10 records
Sol: tail -10 t.txt
15. VI commands
a) Go to the first line
Sol:type % in Ex command mode
b) Go to the last line
Sol:type $ in Ex command mode
c) Delete the lines from 5 to 10
Sol:type 5,10d in Ex command mode
d) Delete the last line

Sol:type $d in Ex command mode


e) Delete the current line (line where cursor presents )
Sol:type d at present line
f) Replace Satya with Jeevan
g) Display the line numbers
16. Display all the files which contains “Shahul”
a) In current directory
Sol:grep “Shahul” *
b) Including subdirectories
Sol:grep –ir “Shahul” *
c) By ignoring case sensitive
Sol:grep –i “Shahul” *
d) Display with line numbers
Sol:grep –inr “shahul”
e) Starting of the file
Sol: grep –i “^Shahul” *
f) End of the file
Sol: grep –i “Shahul$” *
g) Number of times match string repeated for each line
h) Total number matches in a particular file
Sol:grep –ic “Shahul” r.txt
i) All lines which doesn’t contains “Shahul”
Sol: grep –iv “Shahul” r.txt
j) Display all lines which doesn’t contains “Shahul” either at starting or ending
Sol:grep –iv “^Shahul$” r.txt
k) Display the lines which contains “Phani” in first 50 lines
Sol:head -50 t.txt|grep –i “phani”
l) Display all lines which contains phani or Shahul
Sol:egrep –i “(phani|Shahul)” t.txt
m) Display all the lines which x repeats more than twice.
n) Grep all the lines a[]b ([] specifies any character )
Sol:grep “a[abc]b” t.txt
o) Explain the difference between grep , egrep and fgrep with an example
Sol:grep –i “shahul” t.txt
fgrep –i “Shahul
>ramana” t.txt
egrep –i “(shahul|ramana)” t.txt
17. Find all
a) Directories from the directory /home
Sol:find /home –type d
b) Directories only in current directory
Sol:find . –type d
c) Display all empty size files
Sol:find . –type f –size0
d) Find 10 days old directories
Sol:find . –type d +10
e) Find all files from the current directory which are older than 30 days and size
>10MB

Sol:find . –type f –mtime +30 –size +10m


f) Find all files from the current directory which are older than 30 days and size
>10MB and zip them in one file
Sol:find . –type f –mtime +30 –size +10m > test.dat
g) Find all files from the current directory which are older than 30 days and size
>10MB and remove them
18. How to
a) Find all process running in system
Sol:ps
b) How to kill a process
Sol: kill -9 processid
c) Userid
Sol:logname
d) Servername
Sol:hostname
e) Osname
Sol:uname
f) First line of the script
g) Run a shell script
h) Redirect one command output to another command
Sol:catr.txt|wc -w
i) Redirect output of a command to file
Sol:sort –t”,” –k3 t.txt > r.txt
j) Run the shell script with arguments and without arguments
19. Write a script to print scriptname, first argument, second argument and total no of
arguments passed to the script and all argument passed to the script.

Example:kshtest.ksh a b c
Output should be
Script name:test.ksh
Total arguments passed to script: 3
First argument is: a
Second argument is: b
Third argument is: c
Arguments passed to the scripts are: a b c
20. What is $0, $1, $3, $#, $@, $?
21. For the following data
1|a|b|c
2|x|y
3|x
4|5|6|7
7|8|9|10

a) First filed
Sol:cut –d”|” –f1 t.txt
b) Last field
Sol:cut –d”|” –f4 t.txt
c) Number of fields in each line
Sol:
d) Display distinct fileds in entire file
e) Display all lines which contains only one pipe.
22. Write a script to accept two numbers and print product of two numbers.
23. If Pwd is pointing to Server1:/home/jk1234
a) Copy the file test123.dat from server2:/home/pk1234 to server 1
/home/jk1234/xyz/
b) Copy the file to xzy.dat from server1 to server2:/home/pk1234

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