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Elasticsearch Reference [1.7] » cat APIs » cat shards » Index pattern
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Index patternedit

If you have many shards, you may wish to limit which indices show up in the output. You can always do this with grep, but you can save some bandwidth by supplying an index pattern to the end.

% curl 192.168.56.20:9200/_cat/shards/wiki2
wiki2 0 p STARTED 197 3.2mb 192.168.56.10 Stiletto
wiki2 1 p STARTED 205 5.9mb 192.168.56.30 Frankie Raye
wiki2 2 p STARTED 275 7.8mb 192.168.56.20 Commander Kraken
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