How to search in full folder path?

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I used ElasticSeaarch index filename with full path.

for example, c:\dir11\dir12\dir13\dir14\fn11.txt
c:\dir21\dir22\dir23\dir24\fn21.pdf
c:\dir31\dir32\dir33\dir34\fn31.doc
c:\dir41\dir42\dir43\dir44\fn41.ppt

What I want to search not just filename, but partial folder are included, for example, "dir13\dir14\fn11.txt".

Would you please give suggestions how to implement? Thanks in advance.

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Welcome !

May be this could be helpful? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-pathhierarchy-tokenizer.html

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Thanks David. Will try that and get back later

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Looks like pathhierarchy generates term from beginning or the end.

Is it possible to search part of path in the middle, for example, \dir33\dir34?

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Would creating a custom tokenizer for the field and split on \ work? That would give you ability to search on path components.

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Thanks Christian.

I think this may work. But because the search can start and end anywhere, so we should generate all combinations, and it will need a lot of space

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If you are looking for partial paths I assume they would be in sequence. Could you maybe use a phrase query?

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Do you mean
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query-phrase.html#query-dsl-match-query-phrase?

Will try and get back

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Thanks Christian. It works. :slight_smile:

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