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innomius
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with which command do you look for a certain string in search?

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linu1988
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Hello,
You can put specific strings with quotes like

sourcetype=x "string"|..../sourcetype=x NOT "string"|....

this will give you the events containing/not with the string.

Or you can go for match/searchmatch in eval

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.4/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions

Thanks

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linu1988
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Hello,
You can put specific strings with quotes like

sourcetype=x "string"|..../sourcetype=x NOT "string"|....

this will give you the events containing/not with the string.

Or you can go for match/searchmatch in eval

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.4/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions

Thanks

cpeteman
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or if it is only one string not a type of strings just put quotes around it in the search

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