Hello Tom, It is great that you figure it out. About the ">" is what is used to represent the prompt where the user will type the command. Am not sure is a good idea to remove it, however there is always room for improvement.
Cheers, -- Jonathan On Sat, May 25, 2019, 6:51 PM Tom Kwong <tk3...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I've figured it out. It's a dumb mistake, and I think it may help > others if I post how I messed it up. > > When I tried to copy the the instruction, it included the leading ">" > prompt character. That's bad because it just zeroes out the > kafka-topics.sh script! > > *ubuntu@ip-172-31-44-82*:*~/kafka_2.12-2.2.0*$ > bin/kafka-topics.sh > --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --replication-factor 1 > --partitions 1 --topic test > > --create: command not found > > *ubuntu@ip-172-31-44-82*:*~/kafka_2.12-2.2.0*$ ls -l bin/kafka-topics.sh > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 May 25 17:47 *bin/kafka-topics.sh* > > I wasn't paying attention to the side effect and a zero-byte shell script > is a valid script that happily does nothing. > > *ubuntu@ip-172-31-44-82*:*~/kafka_2.12-2.2.0*$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --list > > *ubuntu@ip-172-31-44-82*:*~/kafka_2.12-2.2.0*$ > > I strongly suggest the Kafka dev team remove the ">" character from the > instruction. >
