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owie6466
Explorer

Hello need help to extract the number from this result:

Total number of files under /wmq/logs/AMXDEVRC120/active is: 184

i'm trying to get the total number of files from this directory and compare if over 500. 

 

thank you, 

 

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owie6466
Explorer

thanks for the help

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Use rex.

... | rex "is: (?<numFiles>\d+)"
| stats sum(numFiles) as TotalFiles
| where TotalFiles > 500
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