is there any way to put a relative path in the conf files?

Well, I've been the following problem .
I've got my workspace the following way

bin conf example lib LICENSE locales patterns README.md spec vendor


In the conf folder I've got the file logstash-apache.conf with the next input

logstash-apache.conf

input
file
path => "./../example/logs/logprueba/*_log"
start_position => beginning

}


When I run logstash, I get the message:

File paths must be absolute, relative path specified: ./../example/logs/logprueba/*_log

File paths must be absolute, relative path specified: ./../example/logs/logprueba/*_log

Is there any way to put a relative path?

2 Answers
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The answer is no -- not without modifying the logstash source code... According to the docs:

The path(s) to the file(s) to use as an input. You can use globs here, such as /var/log/*.log Paths must be absolute and cannot be relative.

You can always use the environment variables using bash $(pwd) to yield the current destination, this could not be the master solution for you but at least is not anti-pattern:

$(pwd)

export CSV_FILE=$(pwd)/temporal_datasets/dataset.csv

export CSV_FILE=$(pwd)/temporal_datasets/dataset.csv

then in the logstash config file

input
file
path => '$CSV_FILE'
start_position => "beginning"
sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
ignore_older => 0




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