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mvcombine

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mvcombine

Synopsis

Combines events in the search results that have a single differing field value into one result with a multi-value field of the differing field.

Syntax

mvcombine [delim=string] field

Arguments

delim
Datatype: <string>
Description: Defines the string character to delimit each value.


Description

For each group of results that are identical except for the given field, combine them into a single result where the given field is a multivalue field. delim controls how values are combined, defaulting to a space character (' ').

Examples

Example 1: Combine the values of "foo" with ":" delimiter.

... | mvcombine delim=":" foo


See also

makemv, mvexpand, nomv

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 , 4.0.5 , 4.0.6 , 4.0.7 , 4.0.8 , 4.0.9 , 4.0.10 , 4.0.11 View the Article History for its revisions.


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