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

kafka-console-produce.sh \
  --broker-list localhost:9092 \
  --topic my_topic \
  --new-producer < my_file.txt

Follow this link: http://grokbase.com/t/kafka/users/157b71babg/kafka-producer-input-file