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Fleet uses osquery tables to query operating system, hardware, and software data. Each table provides specific data for analysis and filtering.

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file_lines

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file​_lines

Allows reading an arbitrary file. Each line of the file is returned as a separate row.

Column Type Description
line text Output of the file, line by line.
path text Path of the file to read.
Required in WHERE clause

Example

Output the content of /etc/hosts line by line. 

SELECT * FROM file_lines WHERE path='/etc/hosts';

Notes

See also file_contents for reading the entire contents of a file as a single row. This table is from the Mac Admins osquery extension.

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