Kafka producer to read data files

Question

I am trying to load a data file in loop(to check stats) instead of standard input in Kafka. After downloading Kafka, I performed the following steps:

Started zookeeper:<

Answer 1

You can read data file via cat and pipeline it to kafka-console-producer.sh.

cat ${datafile} | ${kafka_home}/bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list ${brokerlist} --topic test