You can use powershell and try the following command. ./splunk cmd btool inputs list --debug | select-string -pattern "" Examples: ./splunk cmd btool inputs list --debug | select-string -pattern "index = default" ./splunk cmd btool inputs list --debug | select-string -pattern "index = *" ./splunk cmd btool inputs list --debug | select-string -pattern "local" Find more details below. http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/feature/Filtering-output-from-Windows-PowerShell Hope this helps. ... View more