# Find matching word in text file using elk
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162 "2019-04-30T23:29:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/1 "2019-04-30T23:29:26Z")
hi, can anyone help me, i want to find all sentneces containing a word in log or txt file using ELK, any examples plz
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/2 "2019-05-01T01:42:05Z")
A match query would probably work. The documentation contains examples. Check it out.
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/3 "2019-05-01T08:45:28Z")
thank you can you give me the link o the samle of filer and input, ouput in logstach and file beat
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/4 "2019-05-01T10:04:02Z")
That's too vague. You probably need to understand first what filebeat is. Why do you think you need logstash ?
I recommend that you first read some blog post, watch some webinars and then you will have a better picture of what the stack is about.
But to sum up, I'd install
- filebeat (to collect logs)
- Elasticsearch (to index logs)
- Kibana (to use the Logs Application)
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/5 "2019-05-02T17:52:25Z")
no i am using fsrawler and i want to get the content and title of pdf that match a sentence ; what is the query to do that, i used a query but give gives me the content of all my pdfs files and this is not what i want
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/6 "2019-05-02T18:54:12Z")
That'd have been useful to give that information at the beginning to avoid a waste of time.
So FSCrawler indexed your documents, right?
You ran a query? Which one?
You said you're unhappy with the result but could you share what exactly you'd like to se vs the current result?
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/7 "2019-05-02T23:05:03Z")
this is th query:
GET bigdata/\_search
{
"query" : {
"match\_phrase": {
"content" : "Un monde"
}
}
}
i want to seacrch all the pdf containing "the sentence Un monde" but it returns all fiiles; i want just the title of file containing this sentence
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/8 "2019-05-03T02:07:57Z")
I'm surprised.
Wondering how you are running the query, with which tool?
Any chance you are using Kibana dev console and that you added a blank line just after the `GET /_search` and the json body? Could you share a screenshot?
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/9 "2019-05-03T08:26:20Z")
i am using kibana dev consol
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/10 "2019-05-03T09:25:16Z")
Ok. And?
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/11 "2019-05-06T01:04:54Z")
i want the query to retrive only document contaiing the matched sentence
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/12 "2019-05-06T05:14:32Z")
I know that. You are just not answering my questions so I can't help further.
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/13 "2019-05-06T14:00:29Z")
i have created index in fscrawler and i can do queries in kibana dev tools using "get index\_name" or get index\_name/\_search but what i want is to list the content of files and information about files containing a specific sentence or word that i mut specify, i want the query to do that
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/14 "2019-05-06T14:21:31Z")
Repeating my question:
> [@dadoonet](#):
>
> Could you share a screenshot?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-matching-word-in-text-file-using-elk/179162/15 "2019-06-03T14:21:37Z")
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