# rpk group seek

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title: rpk group seek
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description: Modify a group's current offsets. This command allows you to modify a group's offsets.
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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/reference/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group-seek.md -->

Modify a group’s current offsets.

This command allows you to modify a group’s offsets. Sometimes, you may need to rewind a group if you had a mistaken deploy, or fast-forward a group if it is falling behind on messages that can be skipped.

The `--to` option allows you to seek to the start of partitions, end of partitions, or after a specific timestamp. The default is to seek any topic previously committed. Using `--topics` allows to you set commits for only the specified topics; all other commits will remain untouched. Topics with no commits will not be committed unless allowed with `--allow-new-topics`.

The `--to-group` option allows you to seek to commits that are in another group. This is a merging operation: if g1 is consuming topics A and B, and g2 is consuming only topic B, `rpk group seek g1 --to-group g2` will update g1’s commits for topic B only. The `--topics` flag can be used to further narrow which topics are updated. Unlike `--to`, all non-filtered topics are committed, even topics not yet being consumed, meaning `--allow-new-topics` is not needed.

The `--to-file` option allows to seek to offsets specified in a text file with the following format:

```text
[TOPIC] [PARTITION] [OFFSET]
[TOPIC] [PARTITION] [OFFSET]
...
```

Each line contains the topic, the partition, and the offset to seek to. As with the prior options, `--topics` allows filtering which topics are updated. Similar to `--to-group`, all non-filtered topics are committed, even topics not yet being consumed, meaning `--allow-new-topics` is not needed.

The `--to`, `--to-group`, and `--to-file` options are mutually exclusive. If you are not authorized to describe or read some topics used in a group, you will not be able to modify offsets for those topics.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk group seek <group> --to (start|end|timestamp) --to-group ... --topics ... [flags]
```

## [](#examples)Examples

This section provides examples of how to use `rpk group seek`.

Seek group G to June 1st, 2021.

```bash
rpk group seek g --to 1622505600
```

or.

```bash
rpk group seek g --to 1622505600000
```

or.

```bash
rpk group seek g --to 1622505600000000000
```

Seek group X to the commits of group Y topic foo.

```bash
rpk group seek X --to-group Y --topics foo
```

Seek group G’s topics foo, bar, and biz to the end.

```bash
rpk group seek G --to end --topics foo,bar,biz
```

Seek group G to the beginning of a topic it was not previously consuming.

```bash
rpk group seek G --to start --topics foo --allow-new-topics
```

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --allow-new-topics | bool | Allow seeking to new topics not currently consumed (implied with --to-group or --to-file). |
| --format | string | Output format (json,yaml,text,wide,help). (New in v26.2.1) |
| --to | string | Target position to seek to. Use start (or beginning), end (or latest), a specific offset number, or a Unix timestamp prefixed with @ (for example, @1622505600). |
| --to-file | string | Path to a text file specifying offsets per partition. Each line must contain the topic, partition, and offset separated by a space or tab. |
| --to-group | string | Seek to the commits of another group. |
| --topics | stringSlice | Topics to seek. If not specified, seeks all topics the group has committed offsets for. |

## [](#global-flags)Global flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --config | string | Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are ~/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. |
| -X, --config-opt | stringArray | Override rpk configuration settings; -X help for detail or -X list for terser detail. |
| --ignore-profile | bool | Ignore rpk.yaml and redpanda.yaml; use default settings. |
| --profile | string | rpk profile to use. |
| -v, --verbose | bool | Enable verbose logging. |