Splunk Interview Questions for Developer

6. Where to find list of commands, does a command have args? where to find it?

The search commands that make up the Splunk Light search processing language(SPL) are a subset of the Splunk Enterprise search commands. The table below lists all of the commands that make up the Splunk Light search processing language sorted alphabetically.

SPL commands consist of required and optional arguments.

• Required arguments are shown in angle brackets < >.
• Optional arguments are enclosed in square brackets [ ].

Consider this command syntax:

bin [<bins-options>…] <field> [AS <newfield>]

The required argument is <field>. To use this command, at a minimum you must specify bin <field>.

The optional arguments are [<bins-options>…] and [AS <newfield>].