Delete redis keys without ttl

delete_redis_keys.md

The following operations need to be run on a unix system. You can use Bash on Windows is you have a Windows OS.

Install redis client

$ sudo apt-get install redis-tools

Create script file

Create the following bash file

#!/bin/bash

redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 keys "test:*" > keys
cat keys | xargs -n 1 -L 1 redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 ttl > ttl
paste -d " " keys ttl | grep .*-1$ | cut -d " " -f 1 > without_ttl
cat without_ttl | awk '{print "redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 del "$1}' > redis.sh

• You can change 127.0.0.1 with the desired server IP Address
• You can change 6379 with the desired server Port number
• You can change test:* with the desired key format to scan

Make the file executable

$ chmod +x your_file.sh

Executing scripts

1. Execute your script file

• This will create keys, ttl, without_ttl and redis.sh files

2. You can review the files before continuing
3. Execute the script redis.sh