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Splunk Search with PIPE

cj
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So I have an application in centos that monitors process creation and sends it to a remote syslog server which is also running the Universal Forwarder. The syslog is then forwarded to Splunk and I split it using the pipe "|" delimiter. However, I found that many applications like awk and sed use "|" to filter which also messes up the field separation in splunk. Does anyone know how to work around this?

This is when I'm in search.

 

 

Thanks

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Depends on the context, but you may need to escape the pipe with a backslash \|

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