mosquitto_pub

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A simple MQTT version 3.1.1 client that will publish a single message on a topic and exit.

Options (9)

-h, --hostboolean

Publish a temperature value of 32 on the topic `sensors/temperature` to 192.168.1.1 (defaults to `localhost`) with Quality of Service (`QoS`) set to 1

Example:

mosquitto_pub {{[-h|--host]}} {{192.168.1.1}} {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-m|--message]}} {{32}} {{[-q|--qos]}} {{1}}

-t, --topicboolean

Publish a temperature value of 32 on the topic `sensors/temperature` to 192.168.1.1 (defaults to `localhost`) with Quality of Service (`QoS`) set to 1

Example:

mosquitto_pub {{[-h|--host]}} {{192.168.1.1}} {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-m|--message]}} {{32}} {{[-q|--qos]}} {{1}}

-m, --messageboolean

Publish a temperature value of 32 on the topic `sensors/temperature` to 192.168.1.1 (defaults to `localhost`) with Quality of Service (`QoS`) set to 1

Example:

mosquitto_pub {{[-h|--host]}} {{192.168.1.1}} {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-m|--message]}} {{32}} {{[-q|--qos]}} {{1}}

-q, --qosboolean

Publish a temperature value of 32 on the topic `sensors/temperature` to 192.168.1.1 (defaults to `localhost`) with Quality of Service (`QoS`) set to 1

Example:

mosquitto_pub {{[-h|--host]}} {{192.168.1.1}} {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-m|--message]}} {{32}} {{[-q|--qos]}} {{1}}

-p, --portboolean

Publish timestamp and temperature data on the topic `sensors/temperature` to a remote host on a non-standard port

Example:

mosquitto_pub {{[-h|--host]}} {{192.168.1.1}} {{[-p|--port]}} {{1885}} {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-m|--message]}} "{{1266193804 32}}"

-r, --retainboolean

Publish light switch status and retain the message on the topic `switches/kitchen_lights/status` to a remote host because there may be a long period of time between light switch events

Example:

mosquitto_pub {{[-r|--retain]}} {{[-h|--host]}} "{{iot.eclipse.org}}" {{[-t|--topic]}} {{switches/kitchen_lights/status}} {{[-m|--message]}} "{{on}}"

-f, --fileboolean

Send the contents of a file (`data.txt`) as a message and publish it to `sensors/temperature` topic

Example: mosquitto_pub {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-f|--file]}} {{data.txt}}

-s, --stdin-fileboolean

Send the contents of a file (`data.txt`), by reading from `stdin` and send the entire input as a message and publish it to `sensors/temperature` topic

Example: mosquitto_pub < {{data.txt}} {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-s|--stdin-file]}}

-l, --stdin-lineboolean

Read newline delimited data from `stdin` as a message and publish it to `sensors/temperature` topic

Example: {{echo data.txt}} | mosquitto_pub {{[-t|--topic]}} {{sensors/temperature}} {{[-l|--stdin-line]}}

Examples (6)

Publish a temperature value of 32 on the topic `sensors/temperature` to 192.168.1.1 (defaults to `localhost`) with Quality of Service (`QoS`) set to 1

mosquitto_pub [-h|--host] 192.168.1.1 [-t|--topic] sensors/temperature [-m|--message] 32 [-q|--qos] 1

Publish timestamp and temperature data on the topic `sensors/temperature` to a remote host on a non-standard port

mosquitto_pub [-h|--host] 192.168.1.1 [-p|--port] 1885 [-t|--topic] sensors/temperature [-m|--message] "1266193804 32"

Publish light switch status and retain the message on the topic `switches/kitchen_lights/status` to a remote host because there may be a long period of time between light switch events

mosquitto_pub [-r|--retain] [-h|--host] "iot.eclipse.org" [-t|--topic] switches/kitchen_lights/status [-m|--message] "on"

Send the contents of a file (`data.txt`) as a message and publish it to `sensors/temperature` topic

mosquitto_pub [-t|--topic] sensors/temperature [-f|--file] data.txt

Send the contents of a file (`data.txt`), by reading from `stdin` and send the entire input as a message and publish it to `sensors/temperature` topic

mosquitto_pub < data.txt [-t|--topic] sensors/temperature [-s|--stdin-file]

Read newline delimited data from `stdin` as a message and publish it to `sensors/temperature` topic

echo data.txt | mosquitto_pub [-t|--topic] sensors/temperature [-l|--stdin-line]

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