ppai-plivo / rscat

A netcat like utility for Redis Streams

rscat

rscat is a kafkacat like command-line utility written in Go, that can produce and consume items from Redis Streams. Think of it like netcat for Redis Streams. This is incredibly useful for quick debugging, building POCs ,demos and aims to embrace Unix pipeline architecture.

In produce mode rscat reads messages from stdin, delimited by newline and produces them to provided Redis endpoint (--endpoint) and stream (--stream).

In consume mode rscat reads messages from a redis stream, and prints them to stdout. This gives a tail -f like functionality.

Installation:

$ go install github.com/ppai-plivo/rscat

Usage:

$ rscat -h
Usage: rscat [--endpoint ENDPOINT] --stream STREAM --mode MODE [--fmt FMT] [--id ID] [--silent] [--block BLOCK]

Options:
  --endpoint ENDPOINT    redis endpoint [default: 127.0.0.1:6379]
  --stream STREAM        key name of redis stream
  --mode MODE            mode: produce or consume
  --fmt FMT              produce mode: source format (only csv supported) [default: csv]
  --id ID                produce mode: possible values - auto or linenum [default: auto]
  --silent               produce mode: suppress printing id
  --block BLOCK          consume mode: time in seconds to block for [default: 1]
  --help, -h             display this help and exit