https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-execute-a-shell-script-kept-in-app-s-bin-folder-using-a/m-p/147628#M185332 <P>I have a requirement to execute a script (does file cleanup) to be executed from a dashboard button (so as to avoid login into unix box to execute it, it has to be executed on adhoc manner). The shell script is placed in etc/apps/MyApp/bin folder.</P> <P>I looked though similar question (<A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/68392/trigger-shell-script-from-dashboard-button">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/68392/trigger-shell-script-from-dashboard-button</A>) but couldn't figure out how to execute shell script from that.</P> <P>Has anyone done that and can share pointers/samples?</P> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:15:30 GMT somesoni2 2014-04-30T16:15:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-execute-a-shell-script-kept-in-app-s-bin-folder-using-a/m-p/147628#M185332 <P>I have a requirement to execute a script (does file cleanup) to be executed from a dashboard button (so as to avoid login into unix box to execute it, it has to be executed on adhoc manner). The shell script is placed in etc/apps/MyApp/bin folder.</P> <P>I looked though similar question (<A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/68392/trigger-shell-script-from-dashboard-button">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/68392/trigger-shell-script-from-dashboard-button</A>) but couldn't figure out how to execute shell script from that.</P> <P>Has anyone done that and can share pointers/samples?</P> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:15:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-execute-a-shell-script-kept-in-app-s-bin-folder-using-a/m-p/147628#M185332 somesoni2 2014-04-30T16:15:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-execute-a-shell-script-kept-in-app-s-bin-folder-using-a/m-p/147629#M185333 <P>You could define your cleanup script as a custom generating search command, and have the button trigger a search for <CODE>| cleanup</CODE>, possibly while passing some parameters and output to be displayed in the dashboard.<BR /> Another upside to this approach is you could easily have Splunk schedule a cleanup if needed... and even test whether cleanup is necessary first: <CODE>some search returning one result if cleanup is necessary, zero results if it is not | map search="cleanup"</CODE></P> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:48:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-execute-a-shell-script-kept-in-app-s-bin-folder-using-a/m-p/147629#M185333 martin_mueller 2014-04-30T22:48:15Z