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Flatten transaction

msarro
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Greetings everyone. This is hopefully a pretty simple question - is there a way to "flatten" transactions? After it runs, you end up with a transaction which is a multiline event. What I'd like to do is flatten the lines into a single line of text. For items where there are multiple matching lines, compress them into a single line which is semicolon delimited or something. Any ideas?

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Ayn
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You could replace newline characters using rex:

<yoursearch> | rex field=_raw mode=sed "s/[\r\n]//g"

The default output in the search app will still wrap lines though, so if you want everything unwrapped on one single line one option would be to use table.

<yoursearch> | eval eventtext=_raw | table _time eventtext

(using _raw directly in table does not work).

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