CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

The option -F depends tells modinfo to print just the value of the depends field. This makes the output easy for a script to parse. The -k 6.8.2-custom switch directs modinfo to inspect the module tree for that specific, non-running kernel. Therefore, the command modinfo -k 6.8.2-custom -F depends i40e meets all stated requirements.

Why the other commands are wrong:

• Using --field license prints the module's license, not its dependencies.
• Using the -p switch is shorthand for the parameters field, so it lists tunable parameters rather than required modules.
• Piping the default modinfo output through grep depends is not ideal for scripting because it includes the depends: label in the output text, which requires extra parsing to isolate only the module names.