exact phrase with wild cards

[user93]

I want to search an exact phrase, but surronded by wildcards. I want to be able to do this with and without specifying the field.

&
|
|search "help me"

What am I doing wrong? I do I get Splunk to accept space as a character within a phrase?

[gcusello · Accepted solution]

Hi @user93,
you can do something like this:

your_search "*help me*"
| ...

or

your_search my_field="*help me*"
| ...

but remember that using wildcards, you haven't a quick search especially without fields.

Anyway, you can use spaces inside quotes as a normal char, if instead you don't use quotes, space is a separator.

Ciao.
Giuseppe

[user93]

Thank you Ciao!