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compare two fields and populate missing values

splunklakshman
Explorer

Dear All,
I have a column named called id in file1.csv and id1 in file2.csv .

File1.csv: File2.csv
ID: ID1
1 1
2 2
3

I have loaded into splunk and assign indexes for two files . I have retrieve the extra value 3 from ID(file1.csv) . Can you please help us in writing the splunk search query. Thanks

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

... | eval comboID=coalesce(id, ID, id1, ID1)
| stats values(comboID)
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splunklakshman
Explorer

Thanks for your posting your query. I have the fields in two indexes 1) ID in (index=idx_test) and ID1 in (index=idx_test1). Can you please help me in writing complete query. Thanks

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splunklakshman
Explorer

I have tried the above query, its displaying 0 records. Thanks

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DalJeanis
Legend

Did you correct the index names to be the ones you assigned to your files?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend
index=idx_test OR index=idx_test1
| eval comboID=coalesce(id, ID, id1, ID1)
| stats values(comboID)
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