pipe operator

noun

A vertical bar "|" character used to chain together a series (or pipeline) of search commands. Searches in Splunk are rendered left to right. If you have a pipeline of search commands, the result of the command to the left of the pipe operator is fed into the command to the right of the pipe operator.

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In the User Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time