https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/passing-host-field-in-custom-script-in-alert/m-p/403862#M116857 <P>Is this custom script for running from an alert? </P> <P>Are you just trying to run a script or have you created a custom alert action app and you are trying to create the script? The former is being deprecated and the later is the preferred way. </P> <P>If you want to send a value to the script, you will have to send it in with the results ( <CODE>... | eval hostname=thishost</CODE> ) as there are no parameters that you can send on the "command line".</P> Fri, 18 May 2018 12:24:44 GMT cpetterborg 2018-05-18T12:24:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/passing-host-field-in-custom-script-in-alert/m-p/403861#M116856 <P>I am trying to run a custom shell script with the hostname returned in my results. How to get the hostname field passed on to the custom script. <BR /> I tried "1.sh $result.host$" which is not working.</P> Fri, 18 May 2018 09:28:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/passing-host-field-in-custom-script-in-alert/m-p/403861#M116856 praneshjan 2018-05-18T09:28:22Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/passing-host-field-in-custom-script-in-alert/m-p/403862#M116857 <P>Is this custom script for running from an alert? </P> <P>Are you just trying to run a script or have you created a custom alert action app and you are trying to create the script? The former is being deprecated and the later is the preferred way. </P> <P>If you want to send a value to the script, you will have to send it in with the results ( <CODE>... | eval hostname=thishost</CODE> ) as there are no parameters that you can send on the "command line".</P> Fri, 18 May 2018 12:24:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/passing-host-field-in-custom-script-in-alert/m-p/403862#M116857 cpetterborg 2018-05-18T12:24:44Z