How to write a file to Kafka Producer

Question

I am trying to load a simple text file instead of standard input in Kafka. After downloading Kafka, I performed the following steps:

Started zookeeper:

Answer 1

You can pipe it in:

kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic my_topic
--new-producer < my_file.txt

Found here.

From 0.9.0:

kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic my_topic < my_file.txt