A penetration tester conducted a discovery scan that generated the following: Which of the following commands generated the results above and will transform them into a list of active hosts for…

The correct answer is B. nmap -sn 192.168.0.1-254 , grep "Nmap scan" | awk `{print S5}'. Since those results are from host discovery (-sn) and no ports are reported. AWK command is used in combination with grep to manipulate the output.

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A penetration tester conducted a discovery scan that generated the following:

Which of the following commands generated the results above and will transform them into a list of active hosts for further analysis?

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Options

Anmap -oG list.txt 192.168.0.1-254 , sort
Bnmap -sn 192.168.0.1-254 , grep "Nmap scan" | awk `{print S5}'
Cnmap --open 192.168.0.1-254, uniq
Dnmap -o 192.168.0.1-254, cut -f 2

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A
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B
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C
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Explanation

Since those results are from host discovery (-sn) and no ports are reported. AWK command is used in combination with grep to manipulate the output.

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#Nmap#Host Discovery#Command-line Tools#Text Processing

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