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Is there a function that randomly shuffles results?

davidch12
Explorer

Similar to sort, except I'm looking for a function to randomly shuffle the results. This achieves the same result as the Linux shuf command.

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kelstahl8705
Path Finder

I have to look up this command every few months because I can never remember it... Are you talking about the 'scrub' command? Turns your search results from

email= [email protected]  > email= [email protected] or possibly to >
email= [email protected]    

It keeps the data in the same format just jumbles everything up?

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/9.2.2403/SearchReference/Scrub
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Scrub


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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

 ... | eval _random=random()
 | sort 0 _random

Or this:

 ... | eval _random=md5(_raw)
 | sort 0 _random

davidch12
Explorer

Looks like the "0" argument to sort ensures all results are returned, even if the number is greater than 10,000:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/SearchReference/Sort

Is my interpretation correct?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Yes, this is very important; never run sort without a number.

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martinpu
Communicator

Hi,

how about something like this?

index=yourIndex
| eval randomValue=random()
| sort randomValue
| table _time _raw randomValue
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