# Using Curator to reindex multiple dailies into a single daily?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** curator
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502 "2019-02-07T18:29:07Z")
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### Author:  [@rj-reilly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rj-reilly)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502/1 "2019-02-07T18:29:07Z")
Hi, I have 5 indexes created daily, on the following day I would like to combine them into a single index using curator. I am not sure on how to setup the filter to only do based on name and date for just the one day.
i.e
data-066223-2019.02.05
data-342434-2019.02.05
data-980973-2019.02.05
data-450234-2019.02.05
data-963237-2019.02.05
then after midnight reindex to data-2019.02.05
thanks !
rob
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502/2 "2019-02-07T18:50:37Z")
My first question is why they are in separate indices in the first place, if you're planning on re-joining them?
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### Author:  [@rj-reilly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rj-reilly)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502/3 "2019-02-07T18:53:50Z")
for now that is out of my control, the app team needs to make the change and I am just trying to reduce the number of shards/indexes in the cluster to keep it managable.
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502/4 "2019-02-07T19:16:28Z")
Gotcha.
```auto
- filtertype: pattern
kind: regex
value: '^data-\d{6}-\d{4}\.\d{2}\.\d{2}$'
- filtertype: period
period_type: relative
source: name
range_from: -1
range_to: -1
timestring: '%Y.%m.%d'
unit: days
```
If you run this after UTC midnight, these two filters should find all indices matching `data-(6 digits)-(4 digits).(2 digits).(2 digits)` that were were created the previous day.
You can test/verify this by using `--dry-run`.
The target index would have to be named ``, as you want it to have _yesterday's_ date on it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-curator-to-reindex-multiple-dailies-into-a-single-daily/167502/5 "2019-03-07T19:16:33Z")
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