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BEFORE:

redis> set foo "hello world"
Wrong number of arguments for 'set'

$ cat /bin/ls | ./redis-cli set x
OK
$ ./redis-cli 
redis> substr x 0 1023
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... garbage ... :)

AFTER:

$ ./redis-cli 
redis> set x "Hello World!"
OK
redis> get x
"Hello World!"

Now you can quote with "...". Also things are printed back as string representations:

redis> set x "Hello\nWorld\n"
OK
redis> get x
"Hello\nWorld\n"

So for instance you can see subtle differences when debugging:

redis> set y " "
OK
redis> set z ""
OK
redis> mget y z
1. " "
2. ""

And now it's possible to deal with binary stuff:

redis> substr lsbinary 0 1023
"\xca\xfe\xba\xbe\x00\x00\x00\x02\x01\x00\x00\a\x80\x00\x00\.... and so forth

But if you are redirecting to a file, it's safe:

$ ./redis-cli get lsbinary > /tmp/foobar
$ md5sum /tmp/foobar /bin/ls
026e646e18f2714dbbe1545bf8b9c339  /tmp/foobar
026e646e18f2714dbbe1545bf8b9c339  /bin/ls

At this point we need a wiki page for redis-cli, I'll use this as a template.

aww... i feel like it was made just for me. ;)