kcat

Generic command line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer

kcat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka, think of it as a netcat for Kafka. In producer mode kcat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a configurable delimiter (-D, defaults to newline), and produces them to the provided Kafka cluster (-b), topic (-t) and partition (-p). In consumer mode kcat reads messages from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.

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