Redis 4.x Cookbook

How to do it...

The steps for connecting to Redis using redis-cli down a Redis Server are as follows:

1. Open a Terminal and connect to Redis with redis-cli:

$ bin/redis-cli  
127.0.0.1:6379>  

The pattern of the preceding prompt is IP:port, indicating redis-cli has connected to this Redis instance successfully.

2. Send some simple commands for testing. More data types and features will be discussed in the following chapters.
3. First, set two string key-value pairs: foo value1, bar value2:

127.0.0.1:6379> set foo value1 
OK 
127.0.0.1:6379> set bar value2 
OK 

4. After that, fetch the values we just set:

127.0.0.1:6379> get foo 
"value1" 
127.0.0.1:6379> get bar 
"value2"

5. Finally, we terminate the Redis instance by sending the shutdown command:

$ bin/redis-cli ...