elasticsearch/docs/reference/setup/install/targz-start.asciidoc

==== Running Elasticsearch from the command line

Elasticsearch can be started from the command line as follows:

[source,sh]
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./bin/elasticsearch
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If you have password-protected the {es} keystore, you will be prompted
to enter the keystore's password. See <<secure-settings>> for more
details.

By default, Elasticsearch runs in the foreground, prints its logs to the
standard output (`stdout`), and can be stopped by pressing `Ctrl-C`.

NOTE: All scripts packaged with Elasticsearch require a version of Bash
that supports arrays and assume that Bash is available at `/bin/bash`.
As such, Bash should be available at this path either directly or via a
symbolic link.