Sometimes, you need to fake something in Splunk. Might be during development and you don't feel like writing a real search, but you really need a number for a dashboard panel to look right. Maybe you are helping someone with a hairy regex, and you don't want to index data just to test it on your instance. Whatever the reason, here are some searches that have helped me out.
Note that when using these techniques, you are not going through the indexing