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Linux Interview Questions 2024 .

 


Theoretical  questions :

1. What is Linux ?
2.What is the history of Linux ?
3.difference between linux and unix ?
4.what is linux kernel ?Is it legal to edit the linux kernel?

5.what is shell?
6.what is LILO?
7.What is GUI?
8.what are the examples of shell used in linux ?
9.what is swap space in linux ?
10.what commands can be used to check how much memory is being used by linux OS?
11.what is maximum length of filename under linux ?
12.Explain the file permissions in linux .
13.what is inode?
14. what is process id ?
15. what is lvm ?

16.what are the directory related commands in Linux ?
17. what are the daemons?
18. what are the process states ?
19.explain grep command in linux .
20.Explain the ls command in linux .
21.Explain the redirection operator in linux.
22.what is the tar command used for ?
23.If you want to list the entries that start with the character ‘a’ in  particular file , what would be the command ? cat file1.txt | grep ^a . 
24.what are the minimum number of disk partition required to install linux?


25. what is "/proc" filesystem?
provides real-time information about running processes and kernel configurations.
26.what is the typical size of swap partition ?
27.what is the zombie process?



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