topic Re: Using windows batch file to run search on CLI in Monitoring Splunk

Using windows batch file to run search on CLI

quahfamili — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 09:00:35 GMT

Hi,

I was trying to use window batch file to run CLI search command.

The command is something like this:
splunk search "index=xx |eval xx| table xx xx xx" -output csv c:\test.csv

This cmd like works when I manually key in on cmd prompt, but when I saved the file as a batch files or *.cmd, the command will only run : splunk search "index=xx

I know the pipe in cmd needs to be escaped using caret (^|). However, it is not working even when I added the caret.

Thanks in advance.
AQ

Re: Using windows batch file to run search on CLI

quahfamili — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 07:15:42 GMT

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Using windows batch file to run search on CLI

nickhills — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:43:32 GMT

Do you have anything in your batch file to login as a Splunk user before running this command?

Re: Using windows batch file to run search on CLI

somesoni2 — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:20:01 GMT

Give this a try

start "" CALL 'splunk.exe search "index=xx |eval xx| table xx xx xx" -output csv c:\test.csv'