Linux - Install redis-cli only

Question

I have a Linux server with Redis installed and I want to connect to it via command line from my local Linux machine.

Is it possible to install redis-cli only (without redis-server and other tools)?

If I just copy redis-cli file to my local machine and run it, I have the following error:

./redis-cli: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./redis-cli)

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

Instead of redis-cli you can simply use nc!

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

Then submit the commands.

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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/

Solution 5

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

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Comments

[arkascha]

Well, 1. it is not surprising that just copying the executable does not work: most likely you have different architecture and library versions, that cannot work. 2. you should consult the software management system your distribution provides and see what redit packages it provides. Then installing one of those shoudl only require a single click. You should never do a wild installation of stuff into a Linux system if you can use the software management instead.

[Oleg]

@arkascha Thank you for your tip. I'm quite new to Linux so this information is very useful for me

[arkascha]

You mean you are a developer working under a Linux environment, but you never used your systems software management system? What distribution do you use?

[arkascha]

You might also be interested in a package called 'hiredis' which offers a minimalistic c client for redis. No ready-to-use cli client though.

[Oleg]

Well, actually I'm just playing with Redis. I'm on Ubuntu. I've installed Redis and it works fine. Then I installed Debian on VirtualBox, and now I'm trying to connect to Redis on Ubuntu from Debian virtual machine

[arkascha]

So how did you install redis on that ubuntu system?

[Oleg]

I've compiled the sources. I can do the same on Debian machine, but I'm just curious can I install just redis-cli without installing all redis components

[Oleg]

it seems that Debian doesn't support neither redis, nor redis-cli packages

[arkascha]

Why invest so much effort? Just pick the redis package in your software management and install it. That takes two minutes most and you can start using it. What is the advantage in doing all that by hand and ignoring all the advantages of cleanly installed packages?

[arkascha]

Debian does not offer redis packages? LOL. One more reasons not to use Debian. (sorry, could not resist).

[arkascha]

packages.debian.org/search?keywords=redis-server

[deltheil]

What about git clone [email protected]:antirez/redis.git then cd src && make redis-cli?

[Oleg]

@deltheil It works nicely. Thank you!

[febot]

I recommend the Docker solution, see my answer. Can be disposed at any time and your system's packages are untouched in the process.

[Oleg]

Thank you for your answer. I will try it as soon as I can

[Oleg]

For me this command compiled the whole Redis, not only redis-cli

[dhamu]

git clone http://github.com/antirez/redis.git && cd redis && git checkout 2.8.6 && make redis-cli && cp src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin - this works for me.

[Ariel Allon]

anything similar for centos?

[James111]

Try nc -v redis.mydomain.com 6379 (or your custom port)

[pyrospade]

This is the best answer since it requires absolutely no dependencies or external tools.

[Matt Bucci]

is it possible to use this with a redis password?

[Bryan Cote-Chang]

Potentially stupid comment, but don't forget to install gcc sudo yum install gcc before running make!

[Prashanth Chandra]

You can also use rlwrap nc -v redis.mydomain.com 6379 if you have rlwrap which lets you use keyboard shortcuts just as you would in a shell (e.g. cycle/search previous command, next word)

[Artistan]

tried to edit this. but here is a gist on how to do it now... gist.github.com/Artistan/d9288f8e12c4027096e66bd331d4e4fd

[Artistan]

@AlinPurcaru - gist.github.com/Artistan/d9288f8e12c4027096e66bd331d4e4fd

[barath]

Works on linux too.

[hashlash]

I can't find --ssl option for nc. Did you mean ncat?

[Balázs Németh]

netcat - it depends on your OS what the binary exactly is. maybe it's called ncat. I don't know :(

[yihuang]

@AlinPurcaru docker run --rm --network=host redis redis-cli info

[Andrew Sneck]

now it isn't working http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 redis-tools amd64 5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.1 returns 404 Not Found

[Vipresh]

Getting this error on copy command, any idea how to fix it cp src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/ cp: cannot stat 'src/redis-cli': No such file or directory

[Govind Kailas]

Liked your solution, the last update is 3 years ago. Did you try building with the new go version, will it make any difference?

[manu muraleedharan]

Worked for me on Amazon Linux

[Marc Shepherd]

@MattBucci You can do the following: (printf "AUTH <password> \r\n"; sleep 1) | nc -v redis.mydomain.com 6379

[lboix]

Great snippet, I never thought of it ^^