Please please if anyone has time to answer them, this noob would highly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
- whats $# in a shell script
- whats a $* in shell script
- Explain nohup with an example
- If $1 is the first parameter, whats $0
- How do you see the return code of the last executed command
- Explain Cron with an example
- what is rsync
- Whats the advantage of using ssh over telnet?
- Have you used vi? provide example of searching an expression across multiple files (say *.sh) from within vi
- How can i find all /tmp/*.zip and move them to, say, /home/to_examine (assuming the target already exists?)
- Whats the kill command used for? Whats the difference between kill and kill -9
- Whats the "nice" command used for
- Provide a regular expression for searching email addresses within a script file
- Compare /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab
- What do you know of inodes?
- Compare Unix FS with, say, Windows/DOS FS
- Does UNIX FS require defraging? If yes, whats the command. If no, why?
- How do you redirect std error to std output?
- whats the command line for listing the names of the 10 biggest files under /home/