# Automatically closing indices older than 2 days
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 26, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317 "2013-03-26T12:30:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Vikram\_Shankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikram_Shankar)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317/1 "2013-03-26T12:30:04Z")
Hi,
I am trying to add a cron job that will automatically close indices older
than 2 days(to free up RAM,not enough RAM on nodes )
Here is a brief snippet of the script (in $indexName i have extracted the
index name)
curlStr="curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/$indexName/\_close'"
curl $curlStr
I get the following error when i run the script:
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host ''localhost'
I know this has to do with my bash scripting abilities and not ES as such
🙂 However, i am hoping to get suggestions on how you might be handling
similar situations? Any solution to the above problem would be nice too 🙂
Thanks in advance,
Shankar
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### Author:  [@Vikram\_Shankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikram_Shankar)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317/2 "2013-03-26T13:12:11Z")
On Mar 26, 2013 6:00 PM, "Vikram Shankar" [austinium@gmail.com](mailto:austinium@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to add a cron job that will automatically close indices older
> than 2 days(to free up RAM,not enough RAM on nodes )
>
> Here is a brief snippet of the script (in $indexName i have extracted the
> index name)
Please ignore the error in the string below, the actual string in the
script doesn't have the extra curl
> curlStr="curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/$indexName/\_close'"
> curl $curlStr
>
> I get the following error when i run the script:
> curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host ''localhost'
>
> I know this has to do with my bash scripting abilities and not ES as such
> 🙂 However, i am hoping to get suggestions on how you might be handling
> similar situations? Any solution to the above problem would be nice too 🙂
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Shankar
>
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### Author:  [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317/3 "2013-03-27T13:51:58Z")
Hello Vicky,
I'm no bash wizard either, but it's definitely the single quotes that
bothers it. Something like this should work:
INDEX="a"
curlstr="-XPOST localhost:9200/$INDEX/\_close"
curl $curlstr
## Best regards, Radu
[http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) -- Elasticsearch -- Solr -- Lucene
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Vicky [austinium@gmail.com](mailto:austinium@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2013 6:00 PM, "Vikram Shankar" [austinium@gmail.com](mailto:austinium@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to add a cron job that will automatically close indices
> > older than 2 days(to free up RAM,not enough RAM on nodes )
> >
> > Here is a brief snippet of the script (in $indexName i have extracted
> > the index name)
>
> Please ignore the error in the string below, the actual string in the
> script doesn't have the extra curl
>
> > curlStr="curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/$indexName/\_close'"
> > curl $curlStr
> >
> > I get the following error when i run the script:
> > curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host ''localhost'
> >
> > I know this has to do with my bash scripting abilities and not ES as
> > such 🙂 However, i am hoping to get suggestions on how you might be
> > handling similar situations? Any solution to the above problem would be
> > nice too 🙂
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Shankar
> >
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### Author:  [@Vikram\_Shankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikram_Shankar)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317/4 "2013-03-28T11:08:44Z")
Thanks, that fixed it 🙂
Its strange how it works with the single quotes when run from the command
line (instead of being run from a script)
On Mar 27, 2013 7:22 PM, "Radu Gheorghe" [radu.gheorghe@sematext.com](mailto:radu.gheorghe@sematext.com) wrote:
> Hello Vicky,
>
> I'm no bash wizard either, but it's definitely the single quotes that
> bothers it. Something like this should work:
> INDEX="a"
> curlstr="-XPOST localhost:9200/$INDEX/\_close"
> curl $curlstr
>
> ## Best regards, Radu
>
> [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) -- Elasticsearch -- Solr -- Lucene
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Vicky [austinium@gmail.com](mailto:austinium@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > On Mar 26, 2013 6:00 PM, "Vikram Shankar" [austinium@gmail.com](mailto:austinium@gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to add a cron job that will automatically close indices
> > > older than 2 days(to free up RAM,not enough RAM on nodes )
> > >
> > > Here is a brief snippet of the script (in $indexName i have extracted
> > > the index name)
> >
> > Please ignore the error in the string below, the actual string in the
> > script doesn't have the extra curl
> >
> > > curlStr="curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/$indexName/\_close'"
> > > curl $curlStr
> > >
> > > I get the following error when i run the script:
> > > curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host ''localhost'
> > >
> > > I know this has to do with my bash scripting abilities and not ES as
> > > such 🙂 However, i am hoping to get suggestions on how you might be
> > > handling similar situations? Any solution to the above problem would be
> > > nice too 🙂
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Shankar
> > >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-closing-indices-older-than-2-days/11317/5 "2017-07-06T02:43:59Z")