Thanks ! Stupid textEditor in Mac. I had removed that representation from "offset" and "partition" forgot the other one.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > The characters for the first dash in both --max-messages and > --print-offsets doesn't look like a standard '-', is it possible those > options simply aren't being parsed correctly? > > -Ewen > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Anishek Agarwal <anis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Ewen >