Redis SET fails when value has spaces

Question

I just fired up Redis and am playing around with it. The following works fine:

SET billybob "hello"
+OK

However, the following fails:

SET billybob "hey how are you"
-ERR syntax error

I thought SET worked for any key/value, and presumably a value can be any string... but not a string with spaces? What's the story here?

Answer 1

Maybe it is version related. This here works:

$ redis-cli --version
redis-cli 2.8.3

$ redis-cli SET billybob "hey how are you"
OK

$ redis-cli GET billybob
"hey how are you"

@jm3 Use the '-x' command line option for the redis-cli instead. Beware that it will add a "\n" at the end of your string:

$ echo "hey how are you"
hey how are you

$ echo "hey how are you" | redis-cli --pipe SET billybob
All data transferred. Waiting for the last reply...
ERR unknown command 'hey'
Last reply received from server.
errors: 1, replies: 1

$ echo "hey how are you" | redis-cli -x SET billybob
OK
$ redis-cli GET billybob
"hey how are you\n"

HTH

bernie