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

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?
A . nmap CoG list.txt 192.168.0.1-254 , sort
B. nmap Csn 192.168.0.1-254 , grep “Nmap scan” | awk ‘{print S5}’
C. nmap C-open 192.168.0.1-254, uniq
D. nmap Co 192.168.0.1-254, cut Cf 2

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Answer: B

Explanation:

the NMAP flag (-sn) which is for host discovery and returns that kind of NMAP output. And the AWK command selects column 5 ({print $5}) which obviously carries the returned IP of the host in the NMAP output.