For those coming off the heels of The Changelog #292 where we talked with Philipp Krenn about Elasticsearch, you’re gonna wanna play around with full text searching your man pages with Elasticsearch.

This post covers:

1. Setup an Elasticsearch instance locally
2. Create an index for the data
3. Feed the index with the man pages of the OS
4. Create a search method for full text searching
5. Full text search the man pages