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== --help

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Summary
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Show available commands and arguments.

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Flags
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* `--help`

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Example
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Show the curator help output:

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curator --help
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The output of `curator --help`:

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$ curator --help
Usage: curator [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Curator for Elasticsearch indices.

  See http://elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current

Options:
  --host TEXT        Elasticsearch host.
  --url_prefix TEXT  Elasticsearch http url prefix.
  --port INTEGER     Elasticsearch port.
  --use_ssl          Connect to Elasticsearch through SSL.
  --http_auth TEXT   Use Basic Authentication ex: user:pass
  --timeout INTEGER  Connection timeout in seconds.
  --master-only      Only operate on elected master node.
  --dry-run          Do not perform any changes.
  --debug            Debug mode
  --loglevel TEXT    Log level
  --logfile TEXT     log file
  --logformat TEXT   Log output format [default|logstash].
  --version          Show the version and exit.
  --help             Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  alias       Index Aliasing
  allocation  Index Allocation
  bloom       Disable bloom filter cache
  close       Close indices
  delete      Delete indices or snapshots
  open        Open indices
  optimize    Optimize Indices
  replicas    Replica Count Per-shard
  show        Show indices or snapshots
  snapshot    Take snapshots of indices (Backup)
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