] > RabbitMQ C Client The RabbitMQ Team <info@rabbitmq.com> &date; amqp-consume 1 RabbitMQ C Client amqp-consume Consume messages from a queue on an AMQP server amqp-consume OPTION command args amqp-consume consumes messages from a queue on an AMQP server. For each message that arrives, a receiving command is run, with the message body supplied to it on standard input. amqp-consume can consume from an existing queue, or it can create a new queue. It can optionally bind the queue to an existing exchange, or to a newly created exchange. By default, messages will be consumed with explicit acknowledgements. A message will only be acknowledged if the receiving command exits successfully (i.e. with an exit code of zero). The AMQP no ack mode (a.k.a. auto-ack mode) can be enable with the -A option. -q --queue=queue name The name of the queue to consume messages from. If the specified queue does not exist, an auto-delete queue is created with the given name. If this option is omitted, a new auto-delete queue will be created, with a unique name assigned to the queue by the AMQP server; that unique name will be displayed on stderr. -e --exchange=exchange name The name of the exchange to bind the queue to. If omitted, binding is not performed. The specified exchange should already exist unless the --exchange-type option is used to request the creation of an exchange. -t --exchange-type=type This option indicates that an auto-delete exchange of the specified type should be created. The name of the exchange should be given by the --exchange option. -r --routing-key=routing key The routing key for the binding. If omitted, an empty routing key is assumed. -A --no-ack=routing key Enable no ack mode: The AMQP server will unconditionally acknowledge each message that is delivered, regardless of whether the target command exits successfully or not. Consume messages from the queue myqueue, and output the message bodies on standard output via cat: $ amqp-publish -q myqueue cat Bind a newly created auto-delete queue to an exchange myexch, and send each message body to the script myscript, automatically acknowledging them on the server: $ amqp-consume -A -e myexch ./myscript librabbitmq-tools7 describes connection-related options common to all the RabbitMQ C Client tools.