The ausearch command is used to query the audit daemon logs. To translate numeric entities within the log output, such as system call numbers, user IDs, or group IDs, into their human-readable text equivalents, the -i or --interpret option is used. In the given scenario, this option would convert syscall=83 to syscall=mkdir in the output. The option -I (capital I) as presented in the choice is a common typographical error for -i (lowercase i), which is the correct flag to achieve the desired result.

A. The -a option is used to search for a specific audit event ID. It does not affect the interpretation or formatting of the output.

C. The -sc option is a search filter to find events matching a specific syscall name or number. It does not change how the syscall is displayed in the output.

D. The --format option is not a valid parameter in ausearch for interpreting numeric values into text. The default output is already a text format.

E. The -r or --raw option displays data exactly as it is in the log, without any interpretation, which is the opposite of what is required.

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Documentation

"Chapter 25. System Auditing"

Section 25.5.3. Searching for Audit Events. This official documentation states

"To make the output of ausearch more readable

use the -i or --interpret option. This option interprets numeric entities

such as UIDs or GIDs

into text."

2. Oracle® Linux 8 Documentation

"Monitoring System Events with auditd"

Section 2.5. Searching for Audit Events. The Oracle Linux documentation confirms the use of the -i flag: "To interpret the numeric values in the output

such as system call numbers and user and group IDs

into human-readable equivalents

use the -i option."

3. ausearch(8) Linux Manual Page. The primary technical reference

the man page for ausearch

defines the option as: -i

--interpret "Interpret numeric entities into text. For example

uid is converted to account name

syscall is converted to its name

etc."