Bash Scripting

Question 1

What is the PATH environmental variable?

Answer 1

Specifies the search path

Question 2

What is the Shell environmental variable?

Question 3

Where do you add a new location for custom script execution?

Answer 3

~/.bash_profile

Question 3

What is the command to refresh the ~/.bash_profile file?

Answer 3

source ~/.bash_profile

Question 4

How do you add a new alias?

Answer 4

Edit the .bashrc file.

Example: alias findMe=pwd

Question 5

How do you add a new alias?

Answer 5

Edit the .bashrc file.

Example: alias findMe=pwd

Question 6

What is the syntax of a while loop?

Answer 6

while []
do
…
done

Question 7

What is the syntax of a until loop?

Answer 7

until []
do
…
done

Question 8

What is the syntax of a for loop?

Answer 8

for [x in x]
do
…
done