Hello following doc @ https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/System+Tools#SystemTools-SimpleConsumerShell
i tried to print messages using the command ./kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.SimpleConsumerShell —-max-messages 1 --no-wait-at-logend —-print-offsets --partition 17 --offset 76446478 --topic aTopicIAmInterestedIn --broker-list [list of brokers] it just keeps printing messages, it does not honour the max-messages 1, also there is no offset printed even though print-offsets option is provided. the kafka server is on 0.8.2.2 and we have 4 brokers. can someone please help as to what is that i am missing. thanks anishek
