Redis 4.x Cookbook

How to do it...

To understand how to use the list data type, take the following steps:

1. Open a Terminal and connect to Redis with redis-cli.
2. Here, we are going to use a list to store favorite restaurants. To insert two restaurant names to the left end of a list, use LPUSH:

127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH favorite_restaurants "PF Chang's" "Olive Garden"(integer) 2

3. To get all restaurant names in the list, use LRANGE:

127.0.0.1:6379> LRANGE favorite_restaurants 0 -11) "Olive Garden"2) "PF Chang's"

4. To insert a restaurant name to the right end of a list, use RPUSH:

127.0.0.1:6379> RPUSH favorite_restaurants "Outback Steakhouse" "Red Lobster"(integer) 4127.0.0.1:6379> LRANGE favorite_restaurants 0 -11) "Olive Garden"2) "PF Chang's"3) "Outback Steakhouse" ...