70+ Advanced Embedded Linux Unix Administrator Questions 2019 - 2

Question: 6

Who is a file owner?

The user who creates a file is said to be the owner of that file. The owner of a file can perform any operation on that file such as copying, deleting and editing. He/she can execute a file after changing the file access permission by chmod command.

Question: 7

How will you move to home directory?

The cd command without any path name always takes a user to his/her home directory. If the user wants to go to his home directory he has to give simply the cd command. This will take him to his home directory.

Question: 8

Who are the other users?

All the users of the system who are not members of a project group are referred to as Others Users, for the files of that group. Other Users are users who do not belong to that particular group.

Question: 9

How can you append data on to your file?

The append (>>) operator adds the contents of the file, appearing left side of “>>” operator to the file appearing to the right side of same operator, at the end of the existing material. For example the command $ cat file 1 >> file 2 appends the contents file 1 to the contents of file 2.

Question: 10

How will you manipulate the screen?

The clear command clears the screen. The same thing can be achieved by tput clear command also.

The command tput cup 20-20 will position the cursor at row 20, column 20.