Indexing Attachment file to elastic search

Question

I have typed this command to index a document in Elasticsearch

create an index

curl -X PUT \"localhost:9200/test_idx_1x\"
         


        

Answer 1

This is a complete shell script implementation:

file_path='/path/to/file'
file=$(base64 $file_path | perl -pe 's/\n/\\n/g')
curl -XPUT "http://eshost.com:9200/index/type/" -d '{
    "file" : "content" : "'$file'"
}'