Quick Start Guide on Redis

The latest stable source distribution of Redis can be obtained
at this location as a tarball.

$ wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-1.02.tar.gz

The unstable source code, with more features but not ready for
production, can be downloaded using git:

$ git clone git://github.com/antirez/redis.git

Compile¶

Redis can be compiled in most
POSIX systems. To compile Redis just
untar the tar.gz, enter the directly and type ‘make’.

$ tar xvzf redis-1.02.tar.gz
$ cd redis-1.02
$ make

In order to test if the Redis server is working well in your
computer make sure to run make test and check that all the
tests are passed.
Run the server
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Redis can run just fine without a configuration file (when executed
without a config file a standard configuration is used). To run
Redis just type the following command:

$ ./redis-server

With the default configuration Redis will
log to the standard output so you can check what happens. Later,
you can change the default settings.
Play with the built in client
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Redis ships with a command line client that is automatically
compiled when you ran make and it is called ``redis-cli``For
instance to set a key and read back the value use the following:

$ ./redis-cli set mykey somevalue
OK
$ ./redis-cli get mykey
somevalue

What about adding elements to a list:

$ ./redis-cli lpush mylist firstvalue
OK
$ ./redis-cli lpush mylist secondvalue
OK
$ ./redis-cli lpush mylist thirdvalue
OK
$ ./redis-cli lrange mylist 0 -1
1. thirdvalue
2. secondvalue
3. firstvalue
$ ./redis-cli rpop mylist
firstvalue
$ ./redis-cli lrange mylist 0 -1
1. thirdvalue
2. secondvalue