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How to compare two fields data from appendcols

joomla
Engager

Hi Community,

I need support to know how I can get the non-existent values from the two fields obtained from the "appendcols" command output.

Example of Splunk output in table format below:

1st_Field  2nd_Field

1111          2222

empty        3333

empty         1111

I am able to get 1111 after using the lookup command but I want to get 2222 and 3333 only as those are not present in 1st Field.

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joomla
Engager

Ok so I created the two different outlookup in main search and appendcols subseach and then used lookup command. This solved my purpose.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could append the lookup (inputlookup) and then remove the events which have had successful lookups i.e. values in 1st_Field

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