Getting Data In

How to line break this structured log?

afamoyib
Path Finder

I have a script generating an output, however all my output is being registered as one event. I am trying to break each line into an. I tried using the line breaker with regex for end of line. But that fails.

Example of the output.

Status                    Tag                    DisplayName
------                    ----                   -----------
Quit                      jflower                James
Terminated                wpunch                 William
Quit                      madams                 Mark
Terminated                jtota                  Jeff
Quit                      wbaker                 Baker
Quit                      sjohson                Shawn

I am trying to extract the header and

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afamoyib
Path Finder

It was not breaking properly because of how powershell formats it output. I converted the output to csv and then ingested it into splunk. It worked like a charm

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What sourcetype did you specify for this input?
The default LINE_BREAKER setting is [\r\n] which should break events after EOL.
Please share your props.conf settings.
Your posting was cut off. What are you trying to extract with the header?

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