https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97004#M97465 <P>I have a file which contains : </P> <P>Hi this is really great of you !!<BR /> My name is john, how are you<BR /> this is no one</P> <P>I am appending few more lines after the last line but before that i want a single blank line to distinguish both the content as : my output should look like this : </P> <HR /> <P>Hi this is really great of you !!<BR /> My name is john, how are you<BR /> this is no one</P> <P>Hi, this is my new line started<BR /> I am happy to know you<BR /> great people always smile</P> <HR /> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:49:02 GMT abhayneilam 2012-10-19T20:49:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97004#M97465 <P>I have a file which contains : </P> <P>Hi this is really great of you !!<BR /> My name is john, how are you<BR /> this is no one</P> <P>I am appending few more lines after the last line but before that i want a single blank line to distinguish both the content as : my output should look like this : </P> <HR /> <P>Hi this is really great of you !!<BR /> My name is john, how are you<BR /> this is no one</P> <P>Hi, this is my new line started<BR /> I am happy to know you<BR /> great people always smile</P> <HR /> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:49:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97004#M97465 abhayneilam 2012-10-19T20:49:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97005#M97466 <P>What does this have to do with Splunk? Surely you need to either specify you scenario if it is related!</P> Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:08:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97005#M97466 MHibbin 2012-10-20T11:08:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97006#M97467 <P>Are your lines parts of the same events ?</P> <P>If the pattern is easy to recognize, I would recommend to use a sed command to add new lines characters.</P> <UL> <LI>at search time with <CODE>| rex field=_raw mode=sed "s/mylastword/mylastword\n/g"</CODE></LI> <LI>or at index time (more radical) with the sedcmd</LI> </UL> <P>in both case, please read the documentation for the commands.</P> <P>If the pattern is not common, then you'd better fix your source format before indexing it.</P> Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:13:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/creating-adding-a-blank-line-in-between-the-data-in-the-file/m-p/97006#M97467 yannK 2012-10-20T17:13:14Z