https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44062#M10405 <P>Well that would be a rather dangerous thing, security-wise. It doesn't exist. The closest things are "inputcsv" and "inputlookup". You could if you really wanted write a custom search command that did what you want.</P> Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:42:44 GMT gkanapathy 2011-07-16T00:42:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44061#M10404 <P>I thought there was a way (command) that would users with the right permissions to read a file on the Splunk filesystem without indexing that file. Would someone point me to the documentation (if it exists)?</P> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:44:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44061#M10404 the_wolverine 2011-07-15T21:44:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44062#M10405 <P>Well that would be a rather dangerous thing, security-wise. It doesn't exist. The closest things are "inputcsv" and "inputlookup". You could if you really wanted write a custom search command that did what you want.</P> Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:42:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44062#M10405 gkanapathy 2011-07-16T00:42:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44063#M10406 <P>Maybe I'm wrong but, secure or not, I thought it existed, at least maybe in a previous version.</P> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:14:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Read-a-file-using-Splunk-without-indexing-it/m-p/44063#M10406 the_wolverine 2011-07-21T20:14:48Z