Using elasticsearch-cli with docker exec (ES v 7.0.0)

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Howdy folks,

I can successfully start the SQL console client using this command:

docker exec -i $ELASTICSEARCH_CONTAINER_NAME /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-sql-cli

However, I ran into a problem with the proper terminal environment not being passed down to the console program, so I didn't have readline support (no up and down arrows, etc.).

I posted a question on this and then immediately came across the fix:

docker exec -it $ELASTICSEARCH_CONTAINER_NAME /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-sql-cli

That "t" after the "i" makes all the difference.

I hope you find this useful. I am a total noob to Docker exec functions, so it took some pain for me to discover this.

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