What does the following command sequence do: grep Administrator file | cut -f3,4 > admin-hash.txt?

• A. It searches the specified file for the term "Administrator" and extracts the third and fourth fields of each matching line, saving them to a new file
• B. It prints all lines containing "Administrator" exactly as they appear
• C. It extracts the first and second fields from matching lines
• D. It appends the entire matching lines to admin-hash.txt

Answer: (A)

This command sequence demonstrates filtering and field extraction. grep searches the file for lines that contain the string Administrator and outputs those matching lines. Those lines are then passed to cut, which with -f3,4 selects the third and fourth fields from each line (fields are delimited by tabs by default). The final redirection writes those extracted fields to admin-hash.txt, overwriting any existing content. So the overall effect is: find lines with Administrator, keep only fields 3 and 4, and save them to a new file.

If the input uses a delimiter other than tabs, you’d specify it with -d; otherwise -f3,4 targets the 3rd and 4th fields. The other options don’t fit: printing lines unchanged would ignore the field extraction; selecting different fields (like first and second) wouldn’t match the command; and appending versus overwriting is governed by > rather than >>, and the pipe through cut means you don’t save entire lines.