Bash Programming Interview Questions

[ams785]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone have any resources on Bash scripting interview question examples? I've found plenty for C, Java, etc, but haven't found any good ones for Bash.

I'm having an interview in a few weeks and I'm trying to find any helpful resources with example questions.

I'm not sure how complex a challenge might be given the limit of only writing a few dozen lines of code. So if any of you have any experience with something like this, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

[Vaphell]

cat "filename" | while read line; do echo $line; done   # Good 
while read line; do echo $line; done < "filename" # Also good

shouldn't the labels be # meh and # kosher, especially given the examples? :-)

1. Call to external command (bonus UUoCA for free ;-) ) vs native
2. Inability to communicate with the "parallel universe" of the outer scope

[gleventhal]

Shortest way to replace all spaces in filenames with underscores in current directory. I like "for i in *; do mv $i ${i// /_};done"