Chapter 11 Flashcards

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What is tee command

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Tee is a Linux and Unix command for writing STDIN to STDOUT

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2
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What unlink do

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It unlink FIFO

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3
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What is demon

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It is such a background process which has 2 characteristics

  1. It runs system
  2. It provides service
    e. g. http demon to browse any website, FTP demon, printer demon
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4
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What is ‘ps’ command

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Its a process management command. It displays status of process.

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5
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What is ‘top’ command

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Its a process management command. It display CPU usage of processes.

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6
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What is ‘bg’ command

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Put a process in a background

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7
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What is ‘fb’ command

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Put a process in foreground

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8
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What is ‘jobs’ command

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Displays status of all jobs

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9
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what ‘Ctrl-Z’ do

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Stop a process

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10
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What ‘Ctrl-C’ do

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Send SIGINT signal to foreground process so kernel terminate it

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11
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What ‘kill’ command do

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Terminate any type process

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12
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What is ‘init’ process

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It is top level process with PID ‘1’

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13
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What is ‘cron’ process

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It runs jobs on background

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