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Cron Expression- Special Characters/Wildcards

lisatse
Engager

I am fairly new to Splunk Enterprise and I read the documentation about writing cron expressions. Does Splunk support special characters when you are writing cron expressions?

Example of special characters: * , - ? L W

Example cron syntax: 0 */2 * ? * *

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PavelP
Motivator

I've just tested - splunk cron doesn't accept any special cron characters, except listed on the doc page (*,-/)

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Alert/CronExpressions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#CRON_expression

yes , you can use these characters without L W C

But I've never tried it, so please give it a try and let me know how you do it.

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