# How to copy search result of a particular index based on particular criteria?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494 "2016-01-06T11:03:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494/1 "2016-01-06T11:03:02Z")
I need to get the searched result to a file.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494/2 "2016-01-06T11:47:49Z")
This is impossible to answer without further details. How are you performing the search? curl? A script in some language? Which language?
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### Author:  [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494/3 "2016-01-06T11:49:14Z")
we are using query dsl in marvel
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494/4 "2016-01-06T21:41:50Z")
Then you cannot do this. You would need to use curl and then output the results to a file.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-copy-search-result-of-a-particular-index-based-on-particular-criteria/38494/5 "2017-07-05T23:26:38Z")