lines

Parses and prints events as lines.

Synopsis

Parser:

lines [-s|--skip-empty] [--null]

Printer:

lines

Description

The lines parser takes its input bytes and splits it at a newline character.

Newline characters include:

• \n
• \r\n

The resulting events have a single field called line.

Each event is printed on a new line, with fields separated by spaces, and nulls skipped. Use the put-operator before the lines printer to only print a single field.

info

The lines printer does not perform any escaping. Characters like \n and " are printed as-is.

-s|--skip-empty (Parser)

Ignores empty lines in the input.

Defaults to false.

--null

Splits events at null bytes \0 instead of newline characters.

Examples

Read a text file line-by-line:

from file /tmp/file.txt read lines

Write the version number to stdout:

version | put version | to - write lines