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what is use of diff command

maheshsat
Explorer

Hi , I tried understanding diff command from spunk.doc unable to understand,could you please let me know use of diff command what exactly it does , it would be great if given in answer with example.Thanks

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p_gurav
Champion

Hi,

Diff command will give you difference between two search results. Refer below link for example:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/151315/how-to-find-differences-between-two-searches-with-set-diff...

logloganathan
Motivator

diff can be used to get the difference between the epoch time.
Please see the below example where i used this query for setting my alert

your base query | eval MyDate=strptime(date,"%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S") | fieldformat StartTime=strptime(MyDate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") | eval Diff=tostring((StartTime-EndTime),"duration")

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