Need help with update operations in elastic search

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In the below given use case, I want to update the name field and change its value to “My name is Mathews Fox”

"_index": "log",
"_type": "info log",
"_id": "7715ed0b-853e-4d28-b2e3-99156d6dcb3a",
"_score": 5.93148,
"_source": {
"Name": "My name is Lucius fox",
}

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PUT log/info log/7715ed0b-853e-4d28-b2e3-99156d6dcb3a
{
  "Name": "My name is Mathews fox",
}
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Thanks David!
The problem I have at hand is that I wouldn't be aware of id. I want to search on the substring "Lucius" in the "Name" field and if there is a match, then replace "Lucius" with "Mathews" in the "Name" field.

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So this? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update-by-query.html

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I have already tried this. Using this, I can update the complete value of a field but not the substring. I should be first able to identify whether the field contains a particular substring or not and if it does that replace it with the replacement string.

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Share what you tried and we can probably help from there.

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