exec_template()¶

Purpose¶

exec_template(str)

Sets a variable through the execution of a template. Basically this permits to easily extract some part of a property and use it later as any other variable.

Read more about it here : http://www.rsyslog.com/how-to-use-set-variable-and-exec_template

Example¶

The following example shows the template being used to extract a part of the message.

template(name="extract" type="string" string="%msg:F:5%")
set $!xyz = exec_template("extract");

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