# Delete 3 days older indices from elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 13, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185 "2017-06-13T12:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sachintanpure85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sachintanpure85](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sachintanpure85)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/1 "2017-06-13T12:10:19Z")
Hi. I want to delete the 5 days older indices from elasticsearch. I have gone through the some elastic community links . Found the best way for this on this link: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33430055/removing-old-indices-in-elasticsearch/42268400#42268400](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33430055/removing-old-indices-in-elasticsearch/42268400#42268400) So downloaded curator for windows from :[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/4.2/windows-zip.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/4.2/windows-zip.html) After this : I have created the config.yml and action.yml file as follows: client: hosts: ["127.0.0.1:9200"] url\_prefix: use\_ssl: False certificate: client\_cert: client\_key: aws\_key: aws\_secret\_key: aws\_region: ssl\_no\_validate: False http\_auth: timeout: 30 master\_only: False logging: loglevel: INFO logfile: "/root/curator/logs/actions.log" logformat: default blacklist: ['elasticsearch', 'urllib3'] actions: 1: action: delete\_indices description: \>- Delete indices older than 3 days (based on index name), for logstash- prefixed indices. Ignore the error if the filter does not result in an actionable list of indices (ignore\_empty\_list) and exit cleanly. options: ignore\_empty\_list: True timeout\_override: continue\_if\_exception: False disable\_action: False filters: - filtertype: pattern kind: prefix value: logstash- exclude: - filtertype: age source: name direction: older timestring: '%Y.%m.%d' unit: days unit\_count: 3 exclude: ``` actions: ``` And I am running the command : $ curater --config C:/ElasticSearch/curator-4.2.6-win32/config.yml C:/ElasticSearch/curator-4.2.6-win32/action.yml But it gives me the error : bash: curater: command not found ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/2 "2017-06-13T12:57:16Z")
It's spelled `curator`, rather than `curater` ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/3 "2017-06-13T12:59:31Z")
Additionally, if you installed Curator for windows, it won't be runnable in Bash for Windows, but rather in 'CMD` or Powershell ---
**Author:** ![sachintanpure85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sachintanpure85](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sachintanpure85)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/4 "2017-06-13T12:59:59Z")
Sorry for the typo but still the same error : $ curator --config C:/ElasticSearch/curator-4.2.6-win32/config.yml C:/ElasticSearch/curator-4.2.6-win32/action.yml bash: curator: command not found ---
**Author:** ![sachintanpure85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sachintanpure85](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sachintanpure85)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/5 "2017-06-13T13:04:26Z")
I can not run the cmd on my machine ,I don't have access . so I am using the bash cmd . The ElasticSearch , kibana and logstash are working fine on my machine . How can I run the curator in the same way , I am running Eelastic and all? ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/6 "2017-06-13T13:17:15Z")
You would need to install the DEB version there, or install Python inside Bash for windows, and install via pip there. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-3-days-older-indices-from-elasticsearch/89185/7 "2017-07-11T13:17:15Z")
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