gistfile1.txt

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?refresh=true' -d '{
     "user": "kimchy",
     "post_date": "2009-11-15T13:12:00",
     "message": "Trying out elasticsearch, so far so good?"
}'
echo ""
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2?refresh=true' -d '{
     "user": "kimchy",
     "post_date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
     "message": "You know, for Search"
}'
echo ""
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d '{
    "actions" : [
        { "add" : { "index" : "twitter", "alias" : "alias1" } }
    ]
}'
echo ""
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d '{
    "actions" : [
        { "add" : { "index" : "twitter", "alias" : "alias2" } }
    ]
}'
echo ""

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_count?q=user:kimchy'
echo ""
# Returns --> {"count":2,"_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0}}

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/alias1,alias2/tweet/_count?q=user:kimchy'
echo ""
# Returns --> {"count":4,"_shards":{"total":10,"successful":10,"failed":0}}

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/alias1,alias2/tweet/_search?q=user:kimchy&pretty=true'