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Writing Regex with Lookaheads to Capture Group

nateloepker
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Hello,

I am attempting to write some regex with a lookahead.

My event is

pluginText: <plugin_output>
Here is the list of packages installed on the remote Red Hat Linux system :

libkadm5-1.18.2-26.el8_9|(none) Wed 17 Jan 2024 10:21:40 AM CST
sssd-client-2.9.1-4.el8_9|(none) Wed 03 Jan 2024 06:05:06 AM CST
plugin_id: 22869

I would like to capture everything before the plugin_id and after the "Here is the list of packages installed on the remote Red Hat Linux system :\n\n". So all of the software data. My plan is to first extract everything into a big field and then pipe it to another rex command and use max_mode=0 to extract the software into a MV field.

I am having some trouble implementing this. Help is appreciated

Thank you

Nate

 

 

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ITWhisperer
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| rex "(?ms)Here is the list of packages installed on the remote Red Hat Linux system :

(?<software>.*?)\nplugin_id"

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| rex "(?ms)Here is the list of packages installed on the remote Red Hat Linux system :

(?<software>.*?)\nplugin_id"
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