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nomv

Synopsis

Changes a specified multi-value field into a single-value field at search time.

Syntax

nomv <field>

Required arguments

field
Syntax: <field>
Description: The name of a multivalue field.

Description

Converts values of the specified multi-valued field into one single value (overrides multi-value field configurations set in fields.conf).

Examples

Example 1: For sendmail events, combine the values of the senders field into a single value; then, display the top 10 values.

eventtype="sendmail" | nomv senders | top senders

See also

makemv, mvcombine, mvexpand, convert

Answers

Have questions? Visit Splunk Answers and see what questions and answers the Splunk community has using the nomv command.

Retrieved from "http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/SearchReference/Nomv"

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.


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