I am having a source file with the two below mentioned format. However I need to extract a same field but whose positions differ.
Could anyone help me with appropriate regex?
Jan 21 19:38:53 hostname sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user abc by xyz(uid=0)
Jan 21 19:38:38 hostname sshd[000]: Accepted password for xyz from port 123
Here I need to extract the user "xyz" . Both events belongs to same source. How could write the regex to match the both?
OR do we need to go with Field alias?
Thanks in advance
One way is to extract both differently and then use coalesce function to grab the one that is not NULL
... | rex "(?i)session opened for user \w+ by (?P<USER1>.\w+)\W" | rex "(?i)Accepted password for(?P<USER2>.\w+) from" | eval USER = coalesce(USER1,USER2)
One way is to extract both differently and then use coalesce function to grab the one that is not NULL
... | rex "(?i)session opened for user \w+ by (?P<USER1>.\w+)\W" | rex "(?i)Accepted password for(?P<USER2>.\w+) from" | eval USER = coalesce(USER1,USER2)