Linux - Install redis-cli only

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Ubuntu (tested on 14.04) has package called redis-tools which contains redis-cli among other tools. To install it type:

sudo apt-get install redis-tools

Note that on Ubuntu 16.04+ the command is a little bit different:

sudo apt install redis-tools

Instead of redis-cli you can simply use nc!

nc -v --ssl redis.mydomain.com 6380

Then submit the commands.

From http://redis.io/topics/quickstart

wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz
cd redis-stable
make redis-cli
sudo cp src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/

With Docker I normally use https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/redis/. If I need to add redis-cli to an image I use the following snippet.

RUN cd /tmp &&\
    curl http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz | tar xz &&\
    make -C redis-stable &&\
    cp redis-stable/src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin &&\
    rm -rf /tmp/redis-stable

To install 3.0 which is the latest stable version:

$ git clone http://github.com/antirez/redis.git 
$ cd redis && git checkout 3.0 
$ make redis-cli 

Optionally, you can put the compiled executable in your load path for convenience:

$ ln -s src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/redis-cli

In my case, I have to run some more steps to build it on RedHat or Centos.

# get system libraries
sudo yum install -y gcc wget

# get stable version and untar it
wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz
cd redis-stable

# build dependencies too!
cd deps
make hiredis jemalloc linenoise lua geohash-int
cd ..

# compile it
make

# make it globally accesible
sudo cp src/redis-cli /usr/bin/

For centOS, maybe can try following steps

cd /tmp
wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz
cd redis-stable
make
cp src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/redis-cli

Using Docker, you may run this command to get Redis CLI:

docker run -it --rm redis:alpine redis-cli -h redis.mycompany.org -p 6379

where redis is the redis docker image from Docker Hub,
redis-cli is pre-installed in that image, and all after that are parameters to redis-cli:
-h is hostname to connect to,
-p is apparently the port to connect to.

You could also create an alias using the above command

alias redis-cli='docker run --rm --network=host redis:alpine redis-cli'

Which could be added to .bashrc if your using Bash