Experienced developers & engineers are lazy and use the right tools & know-hows to get the tasks done quickly & effectively on the job. Problem Statement How will you search for a file location by name? For example, where are my log files? Under which folder is mysql installed? …...

Experienced developers & data engineers are lazy and use the right tools & know-hows to get the tasks done quickly & effectively on the job. Q01 What Unix commands are handy for the engineers? A01 find, grep, sed, and awk are very handy for data engineers. … Read more ›...

Experienced developers & engineers are lazy and use the right tools & know-hows to get the tasks done quickly & effectively on the job. Unix interview Q&As for data engineers. Problem Statement Given a zipped file with below content having both meta data & actual content, … Read more ›...

Experienced developers & engineers are lazy and use the right tools & know-hows to get the tasks done quickly & effectively on the job. Unix interview Q&As – part 2. Problem Statement When you have 100s of log files, how will you go about searching for errors or certain behaviour...

This extends Unix interview Q&As for engineers – part 4 locate & find. Where to use xargs? xargs can be used when you need to take the output from one command and use it as an argument to another. grep, … Read more ›...

This extends Unix interview Q&As for engineers – part 6 cut and awk. awk format The “action” is performed if the pattern matches.

For example: Given the below csv data file “my_data.csv”

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cut & awk Unix commands are used to extract sections from each line of text. cut vs. awk cut accepts a single-character delimiter, and is suitable only for very simple text file formats whereas awk is much more versatile, and can handle somewhat more complex field delimiter definitions including regular...