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pub [Options]

pub connects to the given MQTT broker and publishes stdin to the specified topic.

All options can be passed either as command-line arguments or can be specified in a simple config file.

-auto-reconnect

automatically reconnect when connection is lost

-broker URL

broker address (should be in the form of a URL)

-ca-root FILE

path to a FILE containing CA certificates (optional)

-cert-file FILE

authenticate with a certificate

-clean

discard any pending messages from the broker (default true)

-client-id STRING

unique identifier for this client (defaults to a semi-random string)

-connect-retry

automatically retry initial connection to broker

-connect-retry-interval DURATION

wait DURATION between initial connection attempts (default 30s)

-config FILE

path to FILE containing configuration values (optional)

-header KEY=VALUE

set an HTTP header (in KEY=VALUE form) (can be specified multiple times)

-key-file FILE

authenticate with a private key

-password STRING

authenticate with a password

-qos INTEGER

quality of service for messages

-retained

retain message on the broker

-tls-alpn STRING

ALPN value to include in the TLS handshake (can be specified multiple times)

-topic STRING

topic to publish or subscribe to (can be specified multiple times)

-username STRING

authenticate with a username

-verbose

increase output

-version

print version

Any option may be specified as a value in a configuration file instead of (or in addition to) a command-line option. Values present on the command-line take precedent over values in the configration file. Thus it is easy to create a base configration file that can be augmented easily at run time.

The configuration file takes the form of a simple space-separated "option value" format (i.e. "broker tcp://test.mosquitto.org:1883").

Publish a message to a topic anonymously.

echo "hello" | pub -broker tcp://test.mosquitto.org:1883 -topic mqttcli/pubtest

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