When using curator to creates indices automatically using a cron job, how can we get the current timestamp to append in the name of the index. This is required to create a time-based index.

Get current timestamp in actions.yml

Srinivas_Mangipudi (Srinivas Mangipudi) December 13, 2016, 8:05am 2

Just found out how to do this: use Python strftime identifiers - curator-%Y%m%d%H%M%S

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