# Mass updating documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mass-updating-documents/8918>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 3, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mass-updating-documents/8918 "2012-09-03T14:11:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Darren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Darren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Darren)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mass-updating-documents/8918/1 "2012-09-03T14:11:46Z")

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Hey guys,

I have ~26m documents and need to update a certain field to 1 set value on  
~1m documents.

What are my options to update all these instead of searching for them all,  
then updating 1 by 1?

Thanks for any help,  
Darren

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mass-updating-documents/8918/2 "2017-07-06T03:14:15Z")

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