Curl recreation of issue causing index to be un-openable

gistfile1.sh

curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/test_close?pretty=true"
# Create an index with a bunch of shards which should take a while
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test_close?pretty=true" -d '{
    "settings": {
        "number_of_shards": 1024,
        "number_of_replicas": 3
    }
}'
# Close the index real fast
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test_close/_close?pretty=true"
# Wait a bit and open it
sleep 2
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test_close/_open?pretty=true"
watch -d curl -s -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true"