Unix interview questions part 12
Unix interview questions part 12
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Total Questions: 20
1. -f option when used with mv command overwrites existing files without prompting any messages.
Correct Answer is : TRUE
2. Which command is used for displaying contents of a file?
Correct Answer is : cat
3. Apart from displaying file contents, cat command is also used for _____ files.
Correct Answer is : creating
4. Multiple arguments as filenames can be specified in cat command.
Correct Answer is : TRUE
5. Which symbol is used with cat command for creating files?
Correct Answer is : >
6. If we create a file using cat command with the same filename which already exists in the current directory then,
Correct Answer is : existing file will be overwritten
7. Which symbol is used to append an existing file?
Correct Answer is : >>
8. Which option is used with cat command for displaying non-printable characters?
Correct Answer is : -v
9. Which option is used with the cat command for displaying file with line numbers?
Correct Answer is : -n
10. Which of the following cannot be performed by cat command?
Correct Answer is : deleting files
11. What does cat file01 file01 file01 display?
Correct Answer is : contents of file01 three times successively
12. Which files will be displayed by the following command: cat *file*
Correct Answer is : all files with filename containing ‘file’
13. Which command is used to create empty files?
Correct Answer is : create
14. Which option is used with touch command which forces the command not to create file, if it does not exists.
Correct Answer is : -c
15. Which one of the following commands is incorrect?
Correct Answer is : cat -a file01
16. Copying is referred to as yanking in vi editor.
Correct Answer is : TRUE
17. Which key is used for deleting text?
Correct Answer is : d
18. Which command is used for deleting a single character?
Correct Answer is : x
19. Which command is used for deleting the character on the left of the cursor?
Correct Answer is : X
20. Which of the following command is used to delete a single line?
Correct Answer is : dd
