redis bulk import using --pipe

Question

I\'m trying to import one million lines of redis commands, using the --pipe feature.

redis_version:2.8.1

cat file.txt | r

Answer 1

The first point is that the parameters have to be double-quoted. The documentation is somewhat misleading on this point.

So a working syntax is :

lpush "name" "joe"
lpush "name" "bob"

The second point is that each line has to end by an \r\n and not just by \n. To fix that point, you just have to convert your file with the command unix2dos

like : unix2dos file.txt

Then you can import your file using cat file.txt | src/redis-cli --pipe

This worked for me.