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From: June Mullins (junemullins, earthlink dot net)
Date: 2002.03.17 - 19.19 MST


My answers and comments follow.  I think I can do all but the last.  The 
bonus
questions are a little intimidating.  Personally, I would remove them.

Seems like I'm still a relative linux dummy.

Jay Miller wrote:

> Hi guys - when it came to interviewing time, I wanted to have a little
> quiz ready to hand to applicants to test their Unix/Linux knowledge..
> I'm hoping you guys will beta test this sucker.. give it a shot and
> lemme know what you think, if you have time.  Thanks!
> 
> ***
> 
> Linux Quiz
> This quiz consists of five questions, each slightly harder than the
> last.  The answers should all be command lines that anyone could enter
> (choice of shell notwithstanding).  They may include piping and
> redirection, but not a ';' in the shell context (ie. you shouldn't
> need multiple inputs, loops, subshells, etc.).  If you aren't sure
> exactly, try to get close - they're meant to get pretty tough.
> 
> 1. Q: Find help for the command write(2).
> 
>    $  

  ==> man 2 write (this one is easy enough, if my answer is correct)

> 
> 
> 
> 2. Q: Uncompress and untar the archive foo-4.2.tar.gz into the current
> directory.  (Bonus: pretend tar(1)'s '-z' switch doesn't exist, as in
> SunOS.)
> 
>    $

==> tar -xvzf foo-4.2.tar.gz . (the gunzip part is already beyond me, 
because I never use it)

> 
> 
> 
> 3. Q: Send a hangup signal to the system's sendmail daemon.  (Bonus:
> pretend killall(1) command doesn't exist, as in OpenBSD.)
> 
>    $  

==> killall -HUP sendmail (I can't do the bonus at all)

> 
> 
> 
> 4. Q: Search all directories beneath and including ~/src for C source
> and header files containing the case insensitive text 'todo'.  Append
> the filenames and matching text to ~/TODO.  (Bonus: append filenames
> only.)
> 
>    $  

==>
        grep -i 'todo' `find ~/src -name \*.c` > ~/TODO   (bonus answer 
- grep -il ......)

> 
> 
> 
> 5. Q: Move all files in the /tmp directory with a .html extension to a
> ..php extension instead.
> 
>    $  

==> I don't know how to do this at all/

> 
> 
> 


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