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Use wildcard in source?

nishantjiit
New Member

I have a directory C:\logs

in this directory I have multiple files:

1: logging-projectname-0.log (There can be multiple files like *-1.log, *-2.log etc..)
2: logging-projectname-batch-0.log (There can be multiple files like *batch-1.log, *batch-2.log etc..)

I only want to search the files like #1. So, I tried ---- source="c:\logs\logging-projectname-[0-9]{1,}.log" SEARCH_STRING

It's not working. Can anyone suggest?

Thanks in advance.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Another option would be this

your base search | regex source="c:\\\\logs\\\\logging-projectname-\d+\.log"

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

source uses wildcards, not regular expressions. somesoni2's suggestion should work.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Another option would be this

your base search | regex source="c:\\\\logs\\\\logging-projectname-\d+\.log"

nishantjiit
New Member

Thanks it worked

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@nishantjiit, please accept an answer.

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skalliger
Motivator

Why don't you just use a wildcard like you mentioned it yourself?
Nevermind that.

Skalli

edit: deleted my search string.

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xavierashe
Contributor

This should be an OR, not an AND.

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skalliger
Motivator

Oh, you're correct. I've misread that. Thought he wants only one but not the other one.

I'll edit it.

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horsefez
Motivator

@skalliger
stop being a noob 😛 😄

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skalliger
Motivator

Should have deleted my comment. 😄

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