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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+__isint='^[0-9]+$'
+__isvalidstr='^[a-z0-9]+$'
+__isvalidaddr='^[a-z]+$|^((25[0-5]|2[0-4]?[0-9]|1[0-9]?[0-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4]?[0-9]|1[0-9]?[0-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9])$'
+
+create_template() {
+    curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT "$1:$2/_index_template/papers_t" -d '
+        {
+            "index_patterns": ["papers*"],
+            "priority": 1,
+            "template": {
+                "aliases": {
+                    "papers": {}
+                },
+                "mappings": {
+                    "properties": {
+                        "id": {
+                            "type": "keyword"
+                        },
+                        "title": {
+                            "type": "text",
+                            "analyzer": "title_analyzer"
+                        },
+                        "authors": {
+                            "type": "text"
+                        },
+                        "topic": {
+                            "type": "text"
+                        },
+                        "summary": {
+                            "type": "text"
+                        },
+                        "tags": {
+                            "type": "keyword"
+                        },
+                        "content": {
+                            "type": "text"
+                        },
+                        "publisher": {
+                            "type": "text"
+                        }
+                    }
+                },
+                "settings": {
+                    "analysis": {
+                        "analyzer": {
+                            "title_analyzer": {
+                                "type": "custom",
+                                "tokenizer": "title_engram_tokenizer"
+                            },
+                            "content_analyzer_i": {
+                                "type": "custom",
+                                "tokenizer": "content_onchar_tokenizer",
+                                "char_filter": [
+                                    "markdown_token_filter"
+                                ]
+                            },
+                            "content_analyzer_s": {
+                                "type": "custom",
+                                "tokenizer": "content_onchar_tokenizer",
+                                "char_filter": [
+                                    "markdown_token_filter"
+                                ],
+                                "filter": [
+                                ]
+                            },
+                            "basic_analyzer": {
+
+                            }
+                        },
+                        "tokenizer": {
+                            "title_engram_tokenizer": {
+                                "type": "edge_ngram",
+                                "min_gram": 2,
+                                "max_gram": 10,
+                                "token_chars": [
+                                    "letter",
+                                    "digit"
+                                ]
+                            },
+                            "content_onchar_tokenizer": {
+                                "type": "char_group",
+                                "tokenize_on_chars": [
+                                    "whitespace",
+                                    ".", ",", "(", ")", "-", "[", "]", "{", 
+                                    "}", "#", ":", ";", "`", "!", "*"
+                                ]
+                            }
+                        },
+                        "char_filter": {
+                            "markdown_token_filter": {
+                                "type": "pattern_replace",
+                                "pattern": "[[a-z][0-9]]*://[[a-z][0-9]]*.[a-z]*",
+                                "replacement": ""
+                            }
+                        },
+                        "filter": {
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    '
+}
+
+#=============================================================================================================================================================================
+
+create_index() {
+    curl -X PUT "$1:$2/papers-$3?pretty"
+}
+
+#=============================================================================================================================================================================
+
+__usage="
+    Usage: $(basename $0)
+    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | -c, --create-only | Skip template initialization and only create        |
+    |                   | specified index. Result index name will be          |
+    |                   | 'papers-{specified name}'                           |
+    |                                                                         |
+    |               -h  | Help information                                    |
+    |                                                                         |
+    |               -a  | Specifies the address                               |
+    |                                                                         |
+    |       -p, --port  | Specifies the port                                  |
+    |                                                                         |
+    | -i, --index-name  | Specifies the index name:                           |
+    |                   | Must be lowercase, cannot include [\/*?\"<>| ,#:],   |
+    |                   | cannot start with [.-_+], cannot be \".\" or \"..\"     |
+    |                   | cannot be longer than 255 bytes (note: multi-byte   | 
+    |                   | characters will count towards the limit faster)     |
+    |                   | Result index name will be 'papers-{specified name}' |
+    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+"
+#=============================================================================================================================================================================
+
+CTRL=0
+
+if [[ "$1" == "-h" ]]; then
+    echo "$__usage"
+else
+    while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+        case "$1" in
+            -p | --port)
+                if [[ -n "$2" && $2 =~ $__isint && "$2" -ge 1 && "$2" -le 65535 ]]; then
+                    PORT="$2"
+                    shift
+                else 
+                    echo "Invalid port number!"
+                fi
+                ;;
+            -a | --address)
+                if [[ -n "$2" ]]; then
+                    IP="$2"
+                    shift
+                else
+                    echo "Address is not specified!"
+                fi
+                ;;
+            -i | --index-name)
+                if [[ -n "$2" && $2 =~ $__isvalidstr ]]; then
+                    IND="$2"
+                    shift
+                else 
+                    echo "Index name is not specified!"
+                fi
+                ;;
+            -c | --create-only)
+                CTRL=2
+                ;;
+            -*)
+                echo "Option '$1' is not supported"
+                exit
+                ;;
+            *)
+                if [[ $1 =~ $__isvalidaddr ]]; then
+                    IP="$1"
+                elif [[ $1 =~ $__isint && "$1" -ge 1 && "$1" -le 65535 ]]; then
+                    PORT="$1"
+                elif [[ $1 =~ $__isvalidstr ]]; then
+                    IND="$1"
+                else 
+                    echo "Invalid argument!"
+                    exit;
+                fi
+                ;;
+        esac
+        shift
+    done
+
+    echo "Specified: $IP:$PORT | Index name: $IND"
+
+    case $CTRL in
+        0) # Default behaviour - full initialization (template creation and index creation)
+            create_template "$IP" "$PORT"
+            echo "Elasticsearch index template created"
+            create_index "$IP" "$PORT" "$IND"
+            echo "Elasticsearch index (papers-$IND) created"
+            exit
+            ;;
+        2) # Create index, skip creating the template
+            create_index "$IP" "$PORT" "$IND"
+            echo "Elasticsearch index (papers-$IND) created"
+            exit
+            ;;
+    esac
+fi
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