https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210708#M187843 <P>Why? Don't you want to know if there are problems starting Splunk?</P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:12:24 GMT richgalloway 2016-08-03T15:12:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210707#M187842 <P>Hello</P> <P>i want to know whether we can skip the lines when we start the splunk for the first time. if we can any body let me know how can we do it<BR /> if my question is wrong sorry for inconvenience. (i don't want to print the below output to my console)<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1682i2ECFF259CB1AEAF7/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:01:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210707#M187842 saifuddin9122 2016-08-03T15:01:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210708#M187843 <P>Why? Don't you want to know if there are problems starting Splunk?</P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:12:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210708#M187843 richgalloway 2016-08-03T15:12:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210709#M187844 <P>i want to know. but, i am trying to write it to text file, i don't want it to print on console</P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:14:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210709#M187844 saifuddin9122 2016-08-03T15:14:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210710#M187845 <P>This is more of a Linux question, but you can redirect the output to save to a new txt file when starting Splunk </P> <P><CODE>./splunk start &gt; output.txt 2&gt;&amp;1</CODE></P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:19:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210710#M187845 skoelpin 2016-08-03T15:19:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210711#M187846 <P>The output is written to $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunk_stdout.log automatically. I'm not sure if you can suppress it from going to the console without side effects.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:28:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210711#M187846 richgalloway 2020-09-29T10:28:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210712#M187847 <P>so if redirect it so the output will be suppressed from console???</P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:23:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210712#M187847 saifuddin9122 2016-08-03T15:23:16Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210713#M187848 <P>Yes, it will not show in the console. It will output it's entire contents to a file called <CODE>output.txt</CODE></P> <P>I just tested this and it worked as expected </P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:24:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210713#M187848 skoelpin 2016-08-03T15:24:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210714#M187849 <P>thank you <BR /> made my work easy </P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:27:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210714#M187849 saifuddin9122 2016-08-03T15:27:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210715#M187850 <P>Great, I'm glad I could help! </P> <P>Please accept/upvote the answer if this solved your problem </P> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:29:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/can-i-skip-the-lines-when-we-start-splunk-for-first-time/m-p/210715#M187850 skoelpin 2016-08-03T15:29:34Z