Shell-Mode
Open MQTT CLI in an interactive shell session. The shell uses JLine for handling console input. Therefore, tab-completion, command-history, password-masking and other familiar shell features are available.
The Shell-Mode is based around a client context driven use case. Therefore, methods like Connect and Disconnect switch the current context of the shell and commands like Publish and Subscribe always relate to the currently active client context.
Start the interactive shell with:
$ mqtt shell
To start the interactive shell with default logging to ~/.mqtt-cli/logs
use:
$ mqtt shell -l
Example
$ mqtt shell # starts the shell
mqtt> con -i myClient # connect client with identifier 'myClient'
myClient@host> pub -t test -m msg # publish the message 'msg' with the new context client
myClient@host> dis # disconnect and remove context
mqtt> ...
Summary
Commands without an active context
Commands with an active context
NOTE: A client is uniquely identified in the CLI by the hostname and the unique identifier.