# How to enter an instruction with CMD in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264 "2017-07-24T02:44:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![eboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eboy/32/22172_2.png) [@eboy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eboy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/1 "2017-07-24T02:44:32Z")

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I just read it here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/\_index\_and\_query\_a\_document.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_index_and_query_a_document.html)  
I don't know how to type this instruction(curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/customer/external/1?pretty&pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'  
{  
"name": "John Doe"  
}  
')  
in win7's CMD.  
Because it is always wrong, for example:  
{"error":{  
"root\_cause":[{  
"type"":mapper\_parsing\_exception",  
......  
}]  
......  
}}  
What should I do? Ask for directions, thank you.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/2 "2017-07-24T03:40:19Z")

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On windows I think it's easier to use Kibana dev console instead of curl.

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**Author:** ![eboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eboy/32/22172_2.png) [@eboy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eboy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/3 "2017-07-24T03:43:51Z")

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Yes, I just found a very good browser plug-in （Sence）, i can directly achieve the input of these statements. Thank you for your reply.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/4 "2017-07-24T03:55:34Z")

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Sense is the old version I believe of the Kibana dev console.

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**Author:** ![eboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eboy/32/22172_2.png) [@eboy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eboy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/5 "2017-07-24T03:58:18Z")

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yet,i see.

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**Author:** ![SKumarMN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skumarmn/32/27537_2.png) [@SKumarMN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SKumarMN)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/6 "2017-07-24T09:43:42Z")

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In widows single quotes in curl doesnt work, use double quotes instead

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**Author:** ![eboy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eboy/32/22172_2.png) [@eboy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eboy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/7 "2017-07-25T07:37:16Z")

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Yes, you're right. thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enter-an-instruction-with-cmd-in-elasticsearch/94264/8 "2017-08-22T07:37:41Z")

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