Ubuntu Interview Questions and Answers

Ques 21. What is the purpose of the 'tar' command?

The 'tar' command is used for compressing and archiving files and directories.

Example:

tar -cvzf archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory

Ques 22. How do you add a user to a group in Ubuntu?

You can add a user to a group with the 'usermod' command. For example: sudo usermod -aG groupName username

Ques 23. Explain the purpose of the 'journalctl' command.

The 'journalctl' command is used to query and display messages from the journal, managed by 'systemd'.

Example:

journalctl

Ques 24. How do you find the process ID (PID) of a running process in Ubuntu?

You can use the 'pgrep' or 'ps' command to find the PID of a running process.

Example:

pgrep processName

Ques 25. What is the purpose of the 'apt-cache' command?

The 'apt-cache' command is used to query and display information about packages in the APT cache.

Example:

apt-cache show packageName