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How to search field output?

David_M
Explorer

I am VERY new to splunk so please bear with me.  I have a search,

index=vulnerability "list of packages installed on the remote" myserver.com | rex field=output "\n{1,3}\s{2,4}(?<ProgramNameOutput>[^|]+)" max_match=5000 | table ProgramNameOutput

Which produces the following fictional output:

libhangul-0.1.0-8.el7
intltool-0.50.2-7.el7
libvert-7.6.1-120.el7
at-spi2-core-2.28.0-1.el7
spice-gtk3-0.35-5.el7_9.1
perl-Digest-MD5-2.52-3.el7
mesa-libvert-18.3.4-12.el7_9
hyperv-daemons-license-0-0.34.20180415git.el7
libsysfs-2.1.0-16.el7
openldap-clients-2.4.44-25.el7_9
libvirt-gconfig-1.0.0-1.el7
libpeas-gtk-1.22.0-1.el7
NetworkManager-adsl-1.18.8-2.el7_9
perl-Locale-Maketext-1.23-3.el7
 
So what I'd like to do is to pair that ProgramNameOutput down to only output that has "libvert" in it.
 
The output field looks similar to this, it's basically one big text block:
 
"output
Here is the list of packages installed on the remote CentOS Linux system :
 
libhangul-0.1.0-8.el7|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:06:47 PM EDT
intltool-0.50.2-7.el7|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:10:13 PM EDT
gdb-7.6.1-120.el7|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:06:15 PM EDT
at-spi2-core-2.28.0-1.el7|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:08:53 PM EDT
spice-gtk3-0.35-5.el7_9.1|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:40:05 PM EDT
perl-Digest-MD5-2.52-3.el7|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:05:15 PM EDT
mesa-filesystem-18.3.4-12.el7_9|(none) Mon 01 Nov 2021 12:38:01 PM EDT"
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

See if the mvfilter function helps.

index=vulnerability "list of packages installed on the remote" myserver.com 
| rex field=output "\n{1,3}\s{2,4}(?<ProgramNameOutput>[^|]+)" max_match=5000 
| eval ProgramNameOutput = mvfilter(match(ProgramNameOutput, "libvirt"))
| table ProgramNameOutput
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

See if the mvfilter function helps.

index=vulnerability "list of packages installed on the remote" myserver.com 
| rex field=output "\n{1,3}\s{2,4}(?<ProgramNameOutput>[^|]+)" max_match=5000 
| eval ProgramNameOutput = mvfilter(match(ProgramNameOutput, "libvirt"))
| table ProgramNameOutput
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

David_M
Explorer

Well that did the trick Rich!  Thank you...

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