# rpk group seek

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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/24.3/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:

\[TOPIC\] \[PARTITION\] \[OFFSET\]
\[TOPIC\] \[PARTITION\] \[OFFSET\]

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.

## [](#examples)Examples

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
```

## [](#usage)Usage

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

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --allow-new-topics | - | Allow seeking to new topics not currently consumed (implied with --to-group or --to-file). |
| -h, --help | - | Help for seek. |
| --to | string | Where to seek (start, end, unix second | millisecond | nanosecond). |
| --to-file | string | Seek to offsets as specified in the file. |
| --to-group | string | Seek to the commits of another group. |
| --topics | strings | Only seek these topics, if any are specified. |
| --config | string | Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. |
| -X, --config-opt | stringArray | Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail. |
| --profile | string | Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details. |
| -v, --verbose | - | Enable verbose logging. |