LUA Eval script to Delete/Expire multiple keys in Redis

redis.sh

EVAL "for i, name in ipairs(redis.call('KEYS', 'author_*')) do redis.call('expire', name, 0); end" 0

Thanks for that @ktkaushik!

A sample/example ruby code:

$redis.eval("for i, name in ipairs(redis.call('KEYS', 'author_*')) do redis.call('DEL', name); end")

is there a way to pass the pattern as an argument @ktkaushik, @lucasmartins

@Kumarn33 use string interpolation my friend. !!

127.0.0.1:6379> eval "return redis.call('del',unpack(redis.call('keys',ARGV[1])))" 0 'author_*'

Sorry guys, amidst the sea of notifications on GitHub, i missed these out completely.

How would you modify this for a redis cluster? @ktkaushik @aclk
redis> EVAL "for i, name in ipairs(redis.call('KEYS', KEYS)) do redis.call('del', name); end" 2 m2, m3 fails with a

CROSSSLOT Keys in request don't hash to the same slot error

I am trying to delete multiple keys and not keys matching any particular pattern