These exercises aim to assess the basic skills for Support Engineer role.
Write a bash script that takes three parameters, two strings and a directory name, and substitutes any occurence of the first string with the second string for any file in the directory, recursively;
Write a python or bash script that counts the number of script files in a directory subdividing it by the shebang interpreter (i.e. what is after the #! in the first line of a file).
An example output in macOS is:
countexec /usr/bin
81 #!/usr/bin/perl
52 #!/usr/bin/perl5.18
47 #!/bin/sh
44 #!/usr/bin/perl5.28
22 #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s
...
Write a cron string that every sunday night create a backup of /home/user folder and send it to a remote server which can be reached using ssh with [email protected] (consider private and public key already correctly installed and configured).
Quick! A new wordpress site must go live! Choose the language you prefer (choose one between bash, ansible, puppet, chef, salt) and automate the setup of application: download the latest version of wordpress, set it up and configure the webserver to serve the site in a secure, fast and stable manner. Assume to use one or two VMs and do any other assumption you need.
Describe your solutions in a readme file and create your own public GitHub repository, and share the link via mail.