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As someone who has written a large number of both simple and complex UNIX shell scripts during the past years.

The following are some basic shell scripting interview questions that I would ask if I needed to hire someone to write new shell scripts or maintain preexisting scripts for me.

These type of questions would help me to determine If the candidate for the position has spent any time actually writing shell scripts.

Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX) is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system that exists in many variants.

The original Unix was developed at AT&T's Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. From the power user's or programmer's perspective, Unix systems are characterized by a modular design that is sometimes called the "Unix philosophy," meaning the OS provides a set of simple tools that each perform a limited, well-defined function, with a unified filesystem as the main means of communication and a shell scripting and command language to combine the tools to perform complex workflows.