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writing rex command in transforms

abhayneilam
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Hi,

I want to write "rex mode=sed field="DIRECTORY" "s/|/ |/g" in transforms.conf or props.conf so that the replacement happens before importing the file in the splunk . Is it possible please let me know how it could be achieved

Thanks in advance

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can probably look at the documentation for http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/admin/Propsconf in particular, SEDCMD.

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