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Appendix D. Command-Line Tools

AMQ Broker includes a set of command-line interface (CLI) tools so you can manage your messaging journal. The table below lists the name for each tool and its description.

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ToolDescription

exp

Exports the message data using a special and independent XML format.

imp

Imports the journal to a running broker using the output provided by exp.

data

Prints reports about journal records and compacts their data.

encode

Shows an internal format of the journal encoded to String.

decode

Imports the internal journal format from encode.

For a full list of commands available for each tool, use the help parameter followed by the tool’s name. In the example below, the CLI output lists all the commands available to the data tool after the user entered the command ./artemis help data. 

$ ./artemis help data

NAME
        artemis data - data tools group
        (print|imp|exp|encode|decode|compact) (example ./artemis data print)

SYNOPSIS
        artemis data
        artemis data compact [--broker <brokerConfig>] [--verbose]
                [--paging <paging>] [--journal <journal>]
                [--large-messages <largeMessges>] [--bindings <binding>]
        artemis data decode [--broker <brokerConfig>] [--suffix <suffix>]
                [--verbose] [--paging <paging>] [--prefix <prefix>] [--file-size <size>]
                [--directory <directory>] --input <input> [--journal <journal>]
                [--large-messages <largeMessges>] [--bindings <binding>]
        artemis data encode [--directory <directory>] [--broker <brokerConfig>]
                [--suffix <suffix>] [--verbose] [--paging <paging>] [--prefix <prefix>]
                [--file-size <size>] [--journal <journal>]
                [--large-messages <largeMessges>] [--bindings <binding>]
        artemis data exp [--broker <brokerConfig>] [--verbose]
                [--paging <paging>] [--journal <journal>]
                [--large-messages <largeMessges>] [--bindings <binding>]
        artemis data imp [--host <host>] [--verbose] [--port <port>]
                [--password <password>] [--transaction] --input <input> [--user <user>]
        artemis data print [--broker <brokerConfig>] [--verbose]
                [--paging <paging>] [--journal <journal>]
                [--large-messages <largeMessges>] [--bindings <binding>]

COMMANDS
        With no arguments, Display help information

        print
            Print data records information (WARNING: don't use while a
            production server is running)

        ...
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You can use the help at the tool for more information on how to execute each of the tool’s commands. For example, the CLI lists more information about the data print command after the user enters the ./artemis help data print. 

$ ./artemis help data print

NAME
        artemis data print - Print data records information (WARNING: don't use
        while a production server is running)

SYNOPSIS
        artemis data print [--bindings <binding>] [--journal <journal>]
                [--paging <paging>]

OPTIONS
        --bindings <binding>
            The folder used for bindings (default ../data/bindings)

        --journal <journal>
            The folder used for messages journal (default ../data/journal)

        --paging <paging>
            The folder used for paging (default ../data/paging)
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