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Input from STDIN can be used instead of a file on disk., to do this use a hyphen instead of a file path:

grep 'code text
complex.property' server.properties | bin/kafka-configs --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 \
  --entity-type brokers --entity-default \
  --alter --add-config-file -

Public Interfaces

We will add the --add-config-file option to kafka-configs.sh. It will be mutually exclusive with --add-config.

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