Splunk Search

How can I search for a file and then use the name of that file to drive the next search?

dmoulais
New Member

I have a collection of hundreds of files. I want to write a search that (1) finds which file has a certain keyword and then (2) search that particular file for additional content for tabling.

Searching for the specific file is done as follows ...

source="jobs/*" "load = 1234" | dedup source

... but I have been googling/trying to figure out how to use that source to drive the next part of the query. Here is some pseudocode with source renamed for ?clarity? as so far I have not been able to find a good way.

source="jobs/*" "load = 1234" | dedup source | rename source as XX | search source=XX "mysearchstring"

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teunlaan
Contributor

Think you want to use a subsearch:

"mysearchstring" [ search source="jobs/*" "load = 1234" | dedup source | table source ] 

SubSearch doc

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