# Can't index TXT file and search text
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-index-txt-file-and-search-text/11817
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 5, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-index-txt-file-and-search-text/11817 "2013-05-05T04:28:47Z")
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### Author:  [@David\_Barbe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Barbe)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-index-txt-file-and-search-text/11817/1 "2013-05-05T04:28:47Z")
Hi,
I have Server with 280 Tera of logs
I want to index the _.txt ,_.DB ,\*.pcap or \*.log file.
1. I try to index the txt file after download plugin mapper-documment with
this command:
- curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/test/diag\_auto/1](http://localhost:9200/test/diag_auto/1)' -d '{ "user" :
"diag\_auto", "post\_date" : "2013-5-5", "my\_attachment" : { "\_attachement" :
"/extra/log/level.txt" } }
this is not work ☹
1. After I want to do simply and advanced search:
a) Search word or line in the log
I want to receive back in wiche file is displayed and also the line in the
file.
b) Search series of word example: i have this,
Line 0 = B
Line 1 = A
Line 2 = S
Line 3 = C
Line 4 = B
Line 5 = C
I send command to search the first A and only after B and C so i will have
back this : Line 1 = A, Line 4 = B, Line 5 = C
Thanks and Best regards
Barbe David
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-index-txt-file-and-search-text/11817/2 "2013-05-05T08:19:54Z")
Hi David,
1. to use attachment plugin, you have to define a mapping first. Then encode your file in Base64, then send it to ES. Read [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments)
Look at the FSriver code source if you need an example. [https://github.com/dadoonet/fsriver](https://github.com/dadoonet/fsriver)
2.
a) ok.
b) with attachment plugin, everything will be flatten. So your lines will be indexed as "B A S C B C". Note that A is a stop word and won't be indexed.
BTW, have a look at logstash and Kibana project. It should help you here.
## HTH
David 😉
Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
Le 5 mai 2013 à 06:28, David Barbe [david@famillebarbe.com](mailto:david@famillebarbe.com) a écrit :
Hi,
I have Server with 280 Tera of logs
I want to index the _.txt ,_.DB ,\*.pcap or \*.log file.
1. I try to index the txt file after download plugin mapper-documment with this command:
- curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/test/diag\_auto/1](http://localhost:9200/test/diag_auto/1)' -d '{ "user" : "diag\_auto", "post\_date" : "2013-5-5", "my\_attachment" : { "\_attachement" : "/extra/log/level.txt" } }
this is not work ☹
1. After I want to do simply and advanced search:
Thanks and Best regards
Barbe David
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-index-txt-file-and-search-text/11817/3 "2017-07-06T02:38:15Z")