UNIX-Operating-System

Question 1

Which of the following commands or sequences of commands will rename a file x to file y in a unix system?

I. mv y,x
II. mv x,y
III. cp y, x(rm x)
IV. cp x, y (rm x) 
A
II and III
B
II and IV
C
I and III
D
II only
Question 1 Explanation: 
Note: Out of syllabus.
Question 2

A user level process in Unix traps the signal sent on a Ctrl-C input, and has a signal handling routine that saves appropriate files before terminating the process. When a Ctrl-C input is given to this process, what is the mode in which the signal handling routine executes?

A
kernel mode
B
superuser mode
C
privileged mode
D
user mode
Question 2 Explanation: 
Note: Out of syllabus.
Question 3

A student wishes to create symbolic links in a computer system running Unix. Three text files named "file 1", "file 2" and "file 3" exist in her current working directory, and the student has read and write permissions for all three files. Assume that file 1 contains information about her hobbies, file 2 contains information about her friends and file 3 contains information about her courses. The student executes the following sequence of commands from her current working directory

ln -s file 1 file 2
ln -s file 2 file 3 

Which of the following types of information would be lost from her file system?

(I) Hobbies (II) Friends (III) Courses
A
(I) and (II) only
B
(II) and (III) only
C
(II) only
D
(I) and (III) only
Question 3 Explanation: 
Note: Out of syllabus.
Question 4

The contents of the text file t1.txt containing four lines are as follows:

a1 b1
a2 b2
a3 b2
a4 b1 

The contents of the text file t2.txt containing five lines are as follows:

a1 c1
a2 c2
a3 c3
a4 c3
a5 c4 

Consider the following Bourne shell script:

awk - F''' {Print S1, S2} ' t1.txt |
while read a b ; do
            awk -v aV = Sa - v bV = Sb - F''
            'aV = = S1 (print aV, bV, S2 )'t2.txt
done 

Which one of the following strings will NOT be present in the output generated when the above script in run? (Note that the given strings may be substrings of a printed line.)

A
"b1 c1"
B
"b2 c3"
C
"b1 c2"
D
"b1 c3"
Question 4 Explanation: 
Note: Out of syllabus.
Question 5
UNIX command used to compare the successive lines of file 1 with the corresponding lines if file 2 and output a 3-columnar report on lines unique to file 1, file 2 and common to both is ----------------
A
cmp file 1 file 2
B
comm. File 1 file 2
C
diff file 1 file 2
D
comp file 1 file 2
Question 6
UNIX command used to compare the successive lines of file 1 with the corresponding lines if file 2 and output a 3-columnar report on lines unique to file 1, file 2 and common to both is ----------------
A
cmp file 1 file 2
B
comm. File 1 file 2
C
diff file 1 file 2
D
comp file 1 file 2
Question 7
Consider the file named ‘file 1’. In order to remove write permission to the owner and grant execute permission to others, which of the following UNIX commands in appropriate?
A
chmod u–w,o+x file 1
B
chmod u-w,o-w file 1
C
cheperum u-w, o+e file 1
D
chmod u-w,o+e file 1
Question 8
The effect of executing the UNIX command ‘sort –t /| +1 file 1’ is ------
A
sorts the lines of the file 1 in ascending order and place | as delimiter
B
sorts the lines of the file 1 in descending order and place | as delimiter
C
sorts the lines of the file 1 in ascending order after skipping content upto | in each line
D
sorts the lines of the file 1 in descending order after skipping content upto | in each line
Question 9

Which of the following commands can be used to get information about individual terminal?

A
who am i
B
pwd
C
i/u
D
which
Question 10

An example of a memory management system call in UNIX is

A
fork
B
mmap
C
sigaction
D
execve
Question 10 Explanation: 
Mmap is a memory management system call in UNIX.
Question 11

Which command is used to remove the read permission of the file ‘note’ from both the group and others?

A
chmodgo+r note
B
chmodgo+rw note
C
chmod go-x note
D
chmod go-r, 4-x note
There are 11 questions to complete.

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