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 | redis-cli --pipe

This results in the following error:

Error reading from the server: Connection reset by peer

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

file.txt contains, for example,

lpush name joe
lpush name bob

edit: I now see there's probably a special format(?) for using pipe mode - http://redis.io/topics/protocol

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 and not just by . 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.