# Problem with splitted logstash config file in logstash 7.7
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-splitted-logstash-config-file-in-logstash-7-7/235788
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-splitted-logstash-config-file-in-logstash-7-7/235788 "2020-06-04T14:41:53Z")
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### Author:  [@jammann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jammann)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-splitted-logstash-config-file-in-logstash-7-7/235788/1 "2020-06-04T14:41:53Z")
We're migrating from logstash 6.5.4 to 7.7.0. In 6.5.4 we had our config files all in one directory, with a naming convention like 01\_. We pointed path.config to that directory and logstash concatenated the files as if it were one big file.
In 7.7 this seems to work differently. E.g. we had a file 50\_filter\_begin with just
```
filter {
```
And then in many files like 51\_drop\_some\_type we had
```
if [type] == "xyz" { drop { id => "xyz_drop" } }
```
and to close all filter files we had 89\_filter\_end
```
}
```
This used to work, but when I try this setup with logstash 7.7, it complains with error messages like
```auto
[2020-06-04T15:25:29,588][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main, :exception=>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=>"Expected one of [\\t\\r\\n], \"#\", \"else\", \"if\", [A-Za-z0-9_-], '\"', \"'\", \"}\" at line 268, column 1 (byte 8076) after filter {\n
```
The whole configuration works nicely with logstash 7.7 when I cat(1) the files together before starting logstash and then point it to the concatenated file. This is my current workaround.
Did I miss something in the migration documentation or has this functionality been removed?
CU, Joe
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-splitted-logstash-config-file-in-logstash-7-7/235788/2 "2020-06-04T14:53:31Z")
This is a [known issue](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/11637) introduced in 7.6.0. You have to wrap each individual file in
```
filter {
}
```
Depending on how you divide your filters right now that may be an almost trivial change, or a significant re-write.
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### Author:  [@jammann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jammann)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-splitted-logstash-config-file-in-logstash-7-7/235788/3 "2020-06-04T19:52:30Z")
Thanks @Badger !
The same pattern applies to outputs (we have several there, too).
It was a trivial change. Actually, we obviously prefer this format, we just didn't expect this to change
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-splitted-logstash-config-file-in-logstash-7-7/235788/4 "2020-07-02T19:52:32Z")
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