[[indices-get-settings]]
== Get Settings

The get settings API allows to retrieve settings of index/indices:

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$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_settings'
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=== Multiple Indices and Types

The get settings API can be used to get settings for more than one index
with a single call. General usage of the API follows the
following syntax: `host:port/{index}/_settings` where
`{index}` can stand for comma-separated list of index names and aliases. To
get settings for all indices you can use `_all` for `{index}`.
Wildcard expressions are also supported. The following are some examples:

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curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter,kimchy/_settings'

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_all/_settings'

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/2013-*/_settings'
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=== Filtering settings by name

The settings that are returned can be filtered with wildcard matching
as follows:

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curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/2013-*/_settings/name=index.number_*'
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