arskom/zmq

A shell wrapper for ZeroMQ. (http://zeromq.org)

This is a shell wrapper for ZeroMQ. Currently it can talk with a zeromq server using only a REQ socket.

Building

Just run make. You can customize include or library paths like so:

make LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/.local/include

Installing

just run make install

You can customize installation prefix like so:

make install PREFIX=$HOME/.local

Using

Template:

zmq <SOCKET_TYPE> <DESTINATION_URI> [messages ...]

Example:

zmq REQ tcp://localhost:5556 hello

Sockets

In REQ mode, zmq sends one message, recv's one message, then exits. The messages can be multipart messages -- zmq sends each argument as a message part and prints each part in an incoming message in a new line.

Just like other shell tools, this is mainly for exchanging text-only messages. You are advised to switch to more capable languages for dealing with binary data.