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Q. Which command clears old packages from the Debian archives?

  • (A) dselect
  • (B) dpkg -autoclean
  • (C) apt-get autoclean
  • (D) dpkg -clean

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Q. alien supports which of the following package formats?
A. RPM
B. .deb
C. BSD
D. .tgz

  • (A) A and B
  • (B) A and C
  • (C) A, B and D
  • (D) A, B, C and D

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Q. Which command converts an RPM package to Debian format?

  • (A) alien -d package.rpm
  • (B) alien -d package.deb
  • (C) alien -t package.rpm
  • (D) alien -r package.rpm

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Q. Which of the following would be used to locate the following words: and, made, named, standard?

  • (A) a.d
  • (B) [a..d]
  • (C) a.*d
  • (D) a*d

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Q. Which command would search lines 2 through 20 of the file records for the characters 1st and replace them with the characters first?

  • (A) sed ‘2,20s/1st/first/’ records
  • (B) sed ‘s2,20/1st/first/’ records
  • (C) sed ‘2-20s/1st/first/’ records
  • (D) sed ‘s2-20/1st/first/’ records

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Q. Which command would separate the file researchpaper into multiple files, each containing 60 lines?
A. split -60 researchpaper
B. split -C 60b researchpaper
C. split -C 60 researchpaper
D. split -l 60 researchpaper

  • (A) A and B
  • (B) B and C
  • (C) A and D
  • (D) A, B, C and D

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Q. Which utility is used to combines the lines from two files?
A. split
B. join
C. paste
D. cut

  • (A) A and B
  • (B) B and C
  • (C) A and D
  • (D) A, B, C and D

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Q. Which of the following would send the data from the ls command to the file myfiles?

  • (A) ls | xargs myfiles
  • (B) ls < myfiles
  • (C) ls > myfiles
  • (D) ls | myfiles

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Q. Which of the following would be used to view the last five lines of the file myfiles?

  • (A) tail -5 myfiles
  • (B) tac -5 myfiles
  • (C) tail myfiles
  • (D) tac myfiles

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Q. Which of the following allows you to view the file myfiles in octal format?
A. od myfiles
B. od -t o myfiles
C. od -t x myfiles
D. od -o myfiles

  • (A) A and B
  • (B) B and C
  • (C) A and D
  • (D) A, B, C and D

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