rmqcat

rmqcat

A netcat-like tool for sending things through RabbitMQ.

Installation:

npm install -g rmqcat
rmqcat --help

Use:

# Start a listener that will put whatever it gets in a file
rmqcat -l > recv.txt

# Send a file to the listener
rmqcat < send.txt

In general, rmqcat will keep a connection open until it gets end-of-file, so you can use it to "chat" back and forth, similar to netcat.

A client (i.e., without -l) will buffer input until its connection is accepted by a listener.

The option -k in combination with -l will keep the listener accepting successive connections. Otherwise it will close once the first connection closes.

The options --url and --queue can be used to address a RabbitMQ server elsewhere (url) with a particular queue used for opening connections (queue). By default a RabbitMQ server on localhost is assumed, so you will probably want to at least supply --url in practice. The queue name defaults to "rmqcat".

The option -D will make rmqcat output a bit of debug information to stderr.

The option --help, if present at all, will make rmqcat output a usage message then exit.