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highlight

highlight

Synopsis

Causes ui to highlight specified terms.

Syntax

highlight <string>+

Required arguments

<string>
Syntax: <string>,...
Description: Comma-separated list of keywords to highlight in results.

Description

Causes the strings provided to be highlighted by Splunk Web.

Examples

Example 1: Highlight the terms "login" and "logout".

... | highlight login,logout

Answers

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.1 , 4.1.1 , 4.1.2 , 4.1.3 , 4.1.4 , 4.1.5 , 4.1.6 , 4.1.7 , 4.1.8 , 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 , 4.3 , 4.3.1 , 4.3.2 , 4.3.3 , 4.3.4 , 4.3.5 , 4.3.6 , 5.0 , 5.0.1 , 5.0.2 View the Article History for its revisions.


Comments

Feature request: Please add support to help specify multiple colors

Dnorman289
December 5, 2012

Feature request: Please add support to help specify colors, as well as to remove default highlighting.

Myudkowsky
October 12, 2012

Feature Request: Please add support for regular expressions, so one can for example highlight an ip address

Nicolasperrenoud
July 22, 2011

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