Mac(os x): Is there a way to install ONLY redis-cli?

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I tried to run brew install redis-cli and googled, but found nothing. Any ideas?

brew install redis only installs 6 files as it is - and one of them is a symlink! — Mark Setchell
– Mark Setchell, Commented Sep 26, 2016 at 13:41
My console says: /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.0: 10 files 1.7M:) But actually, no matter I just didn't notice that it doesn't run a redis service by default. If you add your comment as an answer(with some details), I'll accept it — kharandziuk
– kharandziuk, Commented Sep 26, 2016 at 14:04

Ismail · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-13 05:58:23Z

If you install redis with homebrew, you can see what's in the package like this:

brew install redis brew ls redis

You will see that it only installs very few files indeed anyway:

/usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin/redis-benchmark /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin/redis-check-aof /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin/redis-check-rdb /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin/redis-cli /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin/redis-sentinel /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin/redis-server /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

Or, you can look directly in homebrew's Cellar, like this:

ls -lR /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3 total 40 -rw-r--r-- 1 mark admin 1487 2 Aug 10:00 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 mark admin 376 9 Aug 10:34 INSTALL_RECEIPT.json -rw-r--r-- 1 mark admin 6834 2 Aug 10:00 README.md drwxr-xr-x 8 mark admin 272 2 Aug 10:00 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 mark admin 785 9 Aug 10:34 homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.3/bin: total 3440 -r-xr-xr-x 1 mark admin 67668 2 Aug 10:00 redis-benchmark -r-xr-xr-x 1 mark admin 13936 2 Aug 10:00 redis-check-aof -r-xr-xr-x 1 mark admin 768704 2 Aug 10:00 redis-check-rdb -r-xr-xr-x 1 mark admin 129712 2 Aug 10:00 redis-cli lrwxr-xr-x 1 mark admin 12 2 Aug 10:00 redis-sentinel -> redis-server -r-xr-xr-x 1 mark admin 768704 2 Aug 10:00 redis-server

So, a lot of it is the licence, README and, of the 6 binaries, one is a symlink anyway. So it is not a heavy-weight installation with loads of services and config files anyway.

By the way, you could always pull and run the docker redis-cli without installing anything:

docker run --rm -it redis:alpine redis-cli -h 192.168.0.8 # change to your Redis host's IP

If you actually just want to install the very least software you possibly can, you don't actually have to install anything! The Redis protocol is pretty simple, so you can build up a command in bash and send it yourself like this:

#!/bin/bash ################################################################################ # redis.sh # Very, very simplistic Redis client in bash # Mark Setchell # Usage: # redis.sh SET answer 42 # # Ref: https://redis.io/topics/mass-insert ################################################################################ if [ $# -lt 2 ] ; then echo "Usage: redis.sh SET answer 42" >&2 exit 1 fi # Build protocol string protocol="*$#\r\n" for var in "$@" ; do protocol+="$" protocol+="${#var}\r\n${var}\r\n" done # Send to Redis on default port on local host - but you can change it printf "$protocol" > /dev/tcp/localhost/6379

to run this you first need to install redis otherwise it will give you error like this Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/redis to install just run "brew install redis" Then run "brew ls redis"
In my case, showing - brew ls redis -> Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/redis
@SandeepanNath brew ls only shows you what was installed. you have to first brew install redis to see it
Getting 'Error: No available formula with the name "redis-cli"' in 2020 as well.
@realPK I didn't suggest any formula with the name redis-cli so you cannot have got that message from running my suggested answer.

Jean-François Fabre · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-07 18:37:34Z

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brew tap ringohub/redis-cli brew update && brew doctor brew install redis-cli

edited May 7, 2019 at 18:37

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Ashley Kleynhans Over a year ago

This is the only answer that properly answers the question and should be the accepted answer.

Henrik Over a year ago

Who/what is "ringohub" and why should I install software from it?

Ste Over a year ago

I'm not getting the latest version of redis-cli with this

Mark Gerolimatos Over a year ago

Any way to get @kharandziuk to accept this answer? I understand that this question is three years old, but still...

diego sanches Over a year ago

I agree with Henrik, for security reasons we should not install packages from unknown sources. But still, I upvote this answer. It was the most helpful for me.

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anquegi · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-27 08:51:42Z

This is not a proper installation of redis-cli, BUt I get my work done. I get it working using npm, I installed redis-cli a javascript library.

$ npm install -g redis-cli /Users/toni/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/bin/rdcli -> /Users/toni/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/lib/node_modules/redis-cli/bin/rdcli + [email protected] updated 1 package in 1.07s

then using the console:

$ rdcli 127.0.0.1:6379> keys incident::sequence 1) incident::sequence 127.0.0.1:6379> GET incident::sequence 570 127.0.0.1:6379> config get dir 1) dir 2) /data 127.0.0.1:6379> exit

This is actually how Redislabs suggest doing it on there website -redislabs.com/blog/…
Warning!: I have been using rdcli for a while however just realized it doesn't support full functionality. For instance, I tried to execute "Memory Stats" it was giving an error saying "elem.map is not a function". After switching to native redis-cli, it worked.

BigMan73 · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-26 18:11:01Z

I installed the redis-cli nodejs module:

yarn global add redis-cli

Then ran redis client:

rdcli

and redis client connected, redis REPL shell was activated

traffsh0w · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-12 11:32:10Z

Download latest version from https://github.com/redis/redis-hashes
Unpack tha archive
Run redis-cli from your $PATH

guesswho · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-18 11:09:28Z

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You can use telnet [host [port]] to connect to redis:

telnet localhost 6379

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Asif Mohammad Mollah · Accepted Answer · 2024-09-11 13:09:33Z

First of all, redis-cli is not officially available for Mac OS. But if you want to have only redis-cli without its server. There is some work around. I used this, and it's worked for me.

Step 1: Install redis

brew Install redis

Step 2: Check installed files, you will see the redis-cli file

brew ls redis | grep "redis-cli"

Step 3: Copy this file to your current directory:

cp /usr/local/Cellar/redis/7.2.5/bin/redis-cli ./

Step 4: Uninstall redis

brew uninstall redis

Step 5: It will ask to remove some conf file, remove that as well. Now you have redis-cli executable file.

Step 6: Put it into your /usr/bin/ directory. If you want to put to other folder and export it to path, that also will work.

cp redis-cli /usr/bin/

Step 7: You are done. Enjoy.

You might need to copy to /usr/local/bin/ like sudo cp redis-cli /usr/local/bin

You Me · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-18 11:13:55Z

First you need to check if redis is installed or not. Command- telnet localhost 6379

if not then you can add it with brew or yarn.

for Yarn- yarn global add redis-cli for brew- brew install redis for NPM- $npm install -g redis-cli

Aravinth · Accepted Answer · 2024-09-10 11:21:32Z

adding redis-cli in global either in npm or yarn works

Then you can access it by running rdcli in terminal

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