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How to develop a regular expression for my file paths to update in transforms.conf?

cleelakrishna
Loves-to-Learn

How to develop a regular expression for the below paths to update in transforms.conf?

/srv/tomcat7/iiq/logs/sailpoint.log
/srv/tomcat7/iiq/logs/localhost_access_log.2017-04-19.txt
/srv/tomcat7/iiq/logs/catalina.out

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Richfez
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

cleelakrishna,

If one of the below answers resolved your issue, could you please mark it Accepted? If they both did, Accept the most useful of the answers and upvote the other!

If it did not, please post back with more information or what's not working right so we can help finish this up!

Happy Splunking,
Rich

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

In props.conf:

[YourSourcetypeHere]
REPORT-filename_from_source = filename_from_source

In transforms.conf:

[filename_from_source]
SOURCE_KEY = source
REGEX = [^\\\/]+$
FORMAT = finename::$1
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

What you want to do with these path in the transforms.conf? Search time or index time?

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cleelakrishna
Loves-to-Learn

there is one entry defined for log inputs. this happens to resolve to (at least) 6 different source files. Each unique file type should have a sourcetype, however these are all assigned to a single sourcetype.

I have to create each source type for that source paths

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

If you're looking to capture the filenames, try this

 \/src\/tomcat7\/iiq\/logs\/(.*)

Or if you're extracting as a field

 \/src\/tomcat7\/iiq\/logs\/(?<fileName>.*)
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