mosquitto_sub

A simple MQTT version 3.1.1 client that will subscribe to topics and print the messages that it receives. More information: <https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto_sub-1.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/mosquitto_sub.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install mosquitto-clients
Ubuntu
apt-get install mosquitto-clients
Alpine
apk add mosquitto
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S mosquitto
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install mosquitto-clients
Fedora
dnf install mosquitto
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mosquitto-clients
OS X
brew install mosquitto
Raspbian
apt-get install mosquitto-clients
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/mosquitto_sub
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/mosquitto_sub mosquitto_sub powered by Commando

A simple MQTT version 3.1.1 client that will subscribe to topics and print the messages that it receives. More information: <https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto_sub-1.html>.

  • Subscribe to the topic `sensors/temperature` information with Quality of Service (`QoS`) set to 1. (The default hostname is `localhost` and port 1883):
    mosquitto_sub -t sensors/temperature -q 1
  • Subscribe to all broker status messages publishing on `iot.eclipse.org` port 1885 and print published messages verbosely:
    mosquitto_sub -v -h "iot.eclipse.org" -p 1885 -t \$SYS/#
  • Subscribe to multiple topics matching a given pattern. (+ takes any metric name):
    mosquitto_sub -t sensors/machines/+/temperature/+

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