ES treats and prefixes as a command line switches.
/ will silently fail if there's no matching switch, so you can search for without breaking too much.
The next ES update will have support for to disable command line switch processing.
eg:
The next ES update will also have support for to treat the rest of the command line as a literal search.
eg:
(-s* doesn't process double quotes, where as -- does)
Otherwise, you will need to use double quotes to escape searches starting with -
---// will silently fail if there's no matching switch, so you can search for
/downloadsThe next ES update will have support for
--eg:
es -- red -twoThe next ES update will also have support for
-s*eg:
es -s* red -two(-s* doesn't process double quotes, where as -- does)
Otherwise, you will need to use double quotes to escape searches starting with -
Statistics: Posted by void — Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:39 am






