# Entire File as "one line"
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entire-file-as-one-line/197192
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entire-file-as-one-line/197192 "2019-08-28T19:05:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@paiz1556](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paiz1556)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entire-file-as-one-line/197192/1 "2019-08-28T19:05:44Z")
Is there a good strategy to read an entire file as the "message" value you would send to ElasticSearch?
I see "read" mode as part of file input plugin but that wants me to write the input to a different file. I want to take what I've read and push it to Elastic Search.
I tried using the codec for multiline but didn't know how to use the end of file as the pattern.
The system i'm trying to parse writes a new file for every error so the whole file is what I need to consume. A new error, writes a new file.
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entire-file-as-one-line/197192/2 "2019-08-28T19:25:37Z")
Use a pattern that never matches and a timeout. I use
```
codec => multiline { pattern => "^Spalanzani" negate => true what => previous auto_flush_interval => 1 }
```
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### Author:  [@paiz1556](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paiz1556)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entire-file-as-one-line/197192/3 "2019-08-28T19:47:58Z")
> [@Badger](#):
>
> codec =\> multiline { pattern =\> "^Spalanzani" negate =\> true what =\> previous auto\_flush\_interval =\> 1 }
Brilliant!!! I was trying to attack it with a pattern that always matched. I also think the fact that I wasn't using the auto\_flush\_interval attribute was causing some sort of issue.
This works perfectly!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entire-file-as-one-line/197192/4 "2019-09-25T19:48:00Z")
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