esctl

Elasticsearch CLI

Usage

NAME:
   esctl - manage elasticsearch from cli

USAGE:
   esctl [global options] [command [command options]]

VERSION:
   v0.0.1

COMMANDS:
   health     show ES health
   search, /  search within an index
   help, h    Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --debug, -d    enable debugging [$ES_DEBUG]
   --help, -h     show help
   --version, -v  print the version

Configure esctl with environment variables:

• ES_URI: elasticsearch uri
• ES_USER: username
• ES_PASS: password

Introduction

FIXME

Installation

The tool does not have any dependencies. Just download the binary for your platform from the releases page and you're good to go.

Installation using a pre-compiled binary

You can use stew to install esctl:

stew install https://codeberg.org/scip/esctl

Or go to the latest release page and look for your OS and platform. There are two options to install the binary:

Directly download the binary for your platform, e.g. esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2, rename it to esctl (or whatever you like more!) and put it into your bin dir (e.g. $HOME/bin or as root to /usr/local/bin).

Be sure to verify the signature of the binary file. For this also download the matching esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2.sha256 file and:

cat esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2.sha25 && sha256sum esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2

You should see the same SHA256 hash.

You may also download a binary tarball for your platform, e.g. esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2.tar.gz, unpack and install it. GNU Make is required for this:

tar xvfz esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2.tar.gz
cd esctl-linux-amd64-0.0.2
sudo make install

Installation from source

Check out the repository and execute go build, then copy the compiled binary to your $PATH.

Or, if you have GNU Make installed, just execute:

make
sudo make install

Report bugs

Please open an issue. Thanks!

License

This work is licensed under the terms of the General Public Licens version 3.

Author

Copyleft (c) 2026 Thomas von Dein