XK0-006 System Management Practice Question
A technician wants to extract the third column of a tab-separated file and sort the output uniquely. Which three commands can be combined using pipes to achieve this? (Choose three.)
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cut -f3
cut extracts columns, sort sorts them, uniq removes duplicates. tee would write to file and stdout, not needed.
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cut -f3
Why this is correct
Extracts third field.
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tee
Why it's wrong here
tee duplicates output to file; not needed.
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wc -l
Why it's wrong here
wc counts lines, not needed.
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sort
Why this is correct
Sorts lines.
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uniq
Why this is correct
Removes adjacent duplicate lines.
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