Newbie. Trouble getting through the online guide

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Installed v 7.0.0-alpha2 on Windows 10. Using the getting-started guide at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/getting-started-explore.html I am able to get the cluster health. I am able to list the indices. I am able to create an index. But when I try to put some data into the index (using the COPY AS CURL link to copy the curl command to the clipboard and then paste into my cmd shell), I get the following:

C:\Users\bmclaugh>curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/customer/_doc/1?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
  "error" : "Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported",
  "status" : 406
}
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application

C:\Users\bmclaugh>{
'{' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\bmclaugh>  "name": "John Doe"
'"name":' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\bmclaugh>}
'}' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\bmclaugh>'
''' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

That looked like a cr/lf issue, so I reformatted the curl command to reside on a single line. I get the following:

C:\Users\bmclaugh>curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/customer/_doc/1?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "John Doe"}'
{
  "error" : "Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported",
  "status" : 406
}
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 9

What am I doing wrong here? Again, the first attempt above is a copy/paste from the getting-started-query-document.html online.

Thanks,

Brian

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Curl on windows is challenging.
I'd recommend starting Kibana and running examples from the Kibana dev console instead.

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You may want to use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows, to have a Linux Bash shell experience on Windows. With WSL, the curl commands should work exactly as in the docs.

As an alternative, if you would prefer to use PowerShell, I put together a small PowerShell Script module that you may want to check out for issuing curl-like requests to Elasticsearch.

You can install into a PowerShell session (may need to change your Execution Policy to do this), then can run the commands

For example, the first command in your question

es "http://localhost:9200/customer/_doc/1?pretty" -X PUT -d @'
{
  "error" : "Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported",
  "status" : 406
}
'@
4

Thank you guys. I quit trying to use it from the windows command prompt. I installed it on Linux, and using curl from the bash shell worked just fine.

Thanks,

Brian

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