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# kt - a Kafka tool

Mostly for consuming messages at the moment. Allows to consume messages at specific offsets and produces output that can be further processed via producer [counterpart](https://github.com/echojc/kp) or via tools like [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/).
Some reasons why you might be interested:

* Fast start up time.
* JSON output for easy consumption with tools like [kp](https://github.com/echojc/kp) or [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
* Consume messages between specific offsets.
* No buffering of output.

## Example usage:

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