Crack Unix Interview for Developers

Cloudytechi
2 min readNov 10, 2021

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Unix is one of the most popular operating systems, and it is widely used as a Server Operating System. Apart from the server, Unix can also be used as a general Operating system for desktops and laptops.

List of top Unix interview questions. Here I’ve mentioned only the top questions if you want the answers then go through the above mentioned blog.

  1. What is a Single-user system?
  2. List some features of Unix.
  3. What are the filters in UNIX?
  4. Describe the UNIX file system.
  5. What is the command to list out the hidden files?
  6. What are the various files contained by the UNIX file system?
  7. Name the command which displays the current date of the system.
  8. How can we zip and unzip a file?
  9. What is the difference between cat and more command?
  10. Who is the superuser in UNIX?
  11. Why do we require a superuser and what is another way to become the superuser apart from root login?
  12. What is the difference between multiuser and multitask?
  13. What are the major parts of the Unix operating system?
  14. What is Shell?
  15. What does the tree command do?
  16. Name some major tasks performed by the shell.
  17. Write the standard syntax for the UNIX shell commands.
  18. What is the UNIX shell command that can remove all the files and subdirectories which are in the current directory?
  19. What is a directory in UNIX?
  20. What is an absolute path?
  21. 21. What is a Relative path?
  22. Name some most common shells with their indicators.
  23. What is showing all the files and directories present in the current directory in alphabetical order?
  24. What is a Kernel?
  25. What is Korn Shell?
  26. Give some major features of the Korn shell.
  27. What is Command substitution?
  28. What is a link in the UNIX and why did we create it?
  29. How many types of links we can create in UNIX and what is the difference between them?
  30. What is Inode?

Conclusion

Here we have provided the top UNIX interview questions along with their answers. Before you go for the web developer or any other developer interview, which is related to the server, go through these questions first.

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Cloudytechi
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A tech guy who is more enthusiastic of programming and love coding.

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