Associate Technical Operations Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers

Cat command is used to display the contents of a file on the terminal.

• Can be used to display the contents of a single file or multiple files at once

• Can be used to concatenate multiple files into a single file

• Can be used to create a new file and add content to it using input redirection

• Syntax: cat filename

• Syntax: cat file1 file2 > newfile

The command used to count lines, words, and characters in a file is 'wc'.

• The 'wc' command stands for 'word count'.

• The '-l' option is used to count lines, '-w' for words, and '-c' for characters.

• For example, 'wc -lwc filename' will give the line, word, and character count for the file named 'filename'.