Getting Data In

Whitespace in data input path

menkurau
Path Finder

Hopefully this is a trivial question. Here is the path I want to add as an input:
cd /var/local/InterMapper_Settings/InterMapper Logs

As you can see there is a space. I have tried wrapping in single and double quotes and escaping with a \ but nothing has worked so far. Splunk is running on Linux.

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Ayn
Legend

You should just put it in as it is in inputs.conf, without the quotes.

[monitor:///var/local/InterMapper_Settings/InterMapper Logs]

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Ayn
Legend

You should just put it in as it is in inputs.conf, without the quotes.

[monitor:///var/local/InterMapper_Settings/InterMapper Logs]

Ayn
Legend

Great! Could you mark the answer as accepted as well?

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@ppablo_splunk, can you mark this one as answered when you get a chance. TIA!

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ppablo
Retired

done. thanks!

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menkurau
Path Finder

That worked, points awarded!!

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