mosquitto_sub

A simple MQTT version 3.1.1 client that will subscribe to topics and print the messages that it receives. More information: https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto_sub-1.html.

• Subscribe to the topic sensors/temperature information with Quality of Service (QoS) set to 1. (The default hostname is localhost and port 1883):

mosquitto_sub -t sensors/temperature -q 1

• Subscribe to all broker status messages publishing on iot.eclipse.org port 1885 and print published messages verbosely:

mosquitto_sub -v -h "iot.eclipse.org" -p 1885 -t \$SYS/#

• Subscribe to multiple topics matching a given pattern. (+ takes any metric name):

mosquitto_sub -t sensors/machines/+/temperature/+