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How do I search for multiple files in Splunk?

sunnyparmar
Communicator

I have one Excel sheet in which there are around 1150 bum IDs. One of example given below.

bum_id a62f1ede-e3c2-418a-8376-945d94288c56

Can anybody suggest to me how I can search all of those in one shot in Splunk? Any insights would be appreciated.

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mstjohn_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

hi @sunnyparmar

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sduff_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Have you indexed these Excel files in Splunk already? You may need to convert them to CSVs, or use some other approach ( https://simonduff.net/processing_excel_xlsx_files_with_python/ )

Once you have them in Splunk, its very simple to search for them

index=* bum_id a62f1ede-e3c2-418a-8376-945d94288c56

or
index=* source="*/file1.csv" OR source="*/file2.csv" OR source="*/file3.csv" bum_id a62f1ede-e3c2-418a-8376-945d94288c56

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