Linux Essentials Certificate Exam, version 1.5 v5.0

The script, script.sh, consists of the following lines:
#!/bin/bash
echo $2 $1
Which output will appear if the command, ./script.sh test1 test2, is entered?

Which of the following commands will set the variable text to olaf is home? (Choose two)

What is the correct command to extract the contents of the archive file download.bz2?

Which approach will provide a listing of the contents in a tar archive?

The output of the program date should be saved in the variable actdat. What is the correct statement?

Which of the following commands will create an archive file, named backup.tar, containing all the files from the directory /home?

Which of the following commands redirects the output of cmd to the file foo.txt, in which an existing file is overwritten?

Which command will display the last line of the file foo.txt?

What is the output of the following command sequence?
for token in a b c; do
echo -n "$token ";
done

Which of the following commands will output all of the lines with the name Fred in upper or lower case but not the word red from the file data_file? (Choose two)

Given a file called birthdays containing lines like:

YYYY-MM-DD Name -
1983-06-02 Tim
1995-12-17 Sue
Which command would you use to output the lines belonging to all people listed whose birthday is in May or June?

What two character sequence is present at the beginning of an interpreted script? (Please specify the TWO correct characters only)

Which of the following command sequences overwrites the file foobar.txt?

Which character starts a comment line in a shell script file?