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How to restrict btool stanzas without wildcards?

jason0
Path Finder

Hello, 

I am using splunk 9.0.0.1, and running btool to list out my index settings.  The trouble is I only want one stanza, but btool treats the stanza as a wildcard.

splunk btool --debug indexes list cisco

I get all stanza's with "cisco" in them (there are 51 of them, including "index=cisco").  how do restrict this?  I only want the "cisco" index.

--jason

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goncalocoelho
Path Finder

Hi,

Have you tried btool command with grep? Something like this...

splunk btool --debug indexes list | grep -A 10 "[cisco]"

-A flag will show you N lines after the string your are looking for

 

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jason0
Path Finder

I admit, I had hoped there was a way to do it within btool itself, but grep is always an option...

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goncalocoelho
Path Finder

Hi,

Have you tried btool command with grep? Something like this...

splunk btool --debug indexes list | grep -A 10 "[cisco]"

-A flag will show you N lines after the string your are looking for

 

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

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