Assigning shards in ElasticSearch

gistfile1.sh

# First get the unassigned shard indices
curl -XGET http://localhost:8080/_cat/shards --silent | grep UNASS | awk '{print$1,$2}' | awk '!a[$0]++' > indices.txt

# Now assign them to the proper node.
cat indices.txt | while read -r index shard; do
curl -XPOST 'localhost:8080/_cluster/reroute' -d "{
\"commands\" : [ {
\"allocate\" : {
\"index\" : \"$index\",
\"shard\" : \"$shard\",
\"node\" : \"Mentor\",
\"allow_primary\" : true
}
}
]
}"
sleep 5
done