🥄⛏️ Bash CLI utility for moving RabbitMQ messages using the Shovel interface. No admin UI needed§

Circumvents the admin UI for moving messages between queues (or different instances) in RabbitMQ. Intended to be a script used for creating terminal shortcuts (aliases) for repeated tasks (ie re-running dead letter queue messages manually).

• curl
• getopts
• RabbitMQ server with the shovel api plugin enabled.

Clone this project git clone https://github.com/kdouda/rabbitmq-move, or simply download the rabbit_move.sh script into your preferred directory and give it execution permissions (chmod +x rabbitmq_move.sh).

For example, if we are running the API on localhost:15672 and we want to move messages from queue queue-from to queue-to on the RabbitMQ server running on localhost, we run the script with the following parameters:

./rabbit_move.sh -h http://guest:guest@localhost:15672 -f queue-from -t queue-to -s amqp://guest:guest@localhost/%2f

• -h Hostname of the RabbitMQ API, including the protocol (http(s)) and the port, username and password and the vhost. Required. VHost must be percent encoded.
• -v VHost, defaults to / (%2f), optional. Must be percent encoded. ❗ Used for the management API only.
• -s Source AMQP server (amqp://), including the vhost, required.
• -d Destination AMQP server (amqp://), optional. If not provided, defaults to the source server parameter -s.
• -f Name of the source queue (where the messages are taken from), required.
• -t Name of the destination queue (where the messages are sent to), required. Must not be the same as -f.
• -n Name of the shovel, optional. Defaults to move-shell-script.

Providing an invalid parameter (or no parameters) will result in an error message being shown.

For example, if we want to create a shell alias for the previously provided script, we could do something akin to the following:

alias empty_queue="PATH_TO/rabbit_move.sh -h http://guest:guest@localhost:15672 -f queue-from -t queue-to -s amqp://guest:guest@localhost/%2f"

If you have multiple aliases using this script, it may be wise to use environment variables to replace the shared parts of the alias command.

• 0.1
  • Initial Release

This is an extremely single-purpose bash script, but if you have any ideas for improving it, or if some use case does not work for you, please open an issue!

Something I am considering doing is creating a CLI interface (using something like Gum) for this that would report the progress, show queue states and so on. Another script I have ready is for saving RabbitMQ messages to disk, which will be released in another repository.

This project is licensed under the MIT license. But if you for any reason use this, please do let me know, I'd love to know!

• leogtzr/minimal-safe-bash-template for the basis of the Bash script