How to delete Redis keys? - redis

My Redis key has got special characters. I tried the following commands but no use.
redis-cli keys *ueryLikesApp*
1) "\xac\xed\x00\x05t\x00\x1dqueryLikesApps04ea56ff2567012"
redis-cli --scan --pattern "*Likes*"
No data found
redis-cli keys "*Likes*"|xargs redis-cli del
No data found
how to delete these redis key?

As in How to atomically delete keys matching a pattern using Redis, this will work, using Lua scripting:
redis-cli EVAL "return redis.call('del', unpack(redis.call('keys', ARGV[1])))" 0 "*Likes*"
And if you have thousands of keys
EVAL "local keys = redis.call('keys', ARGV[1]) \n for i=1,#keys,5000 do \n redis.call('del', unpack(keys, i, math.min(i+4999, #keys))) \n end \n return keys" 0 "*Likes*"

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Remove all KEYS from Redis where VALUE match pattern

I have a Redis multicluster with 2 types of records:
4_123: 123
// and
123: 4_123
I'm removed records matching 4_* by KEY using:
redis-cli --scan --pattern 4_* | xargs -n 1 redis-cli DEL
there also address params for an exact cluster, that is why I used xargs -n 1 ... to avoid wrong cluster error.
Now my question is how can I delete records with VALUE matching this same pattern: '4_*'?
The only solution I've come up with so far is:
for i in $(redis-cli KEYS '?[^_]*'); do
MYVAL=$(redis-cli GET $i);
if [[ "$MYVAL" == "4_"* ]];then
redis-cli DEL $i;
fi;
done

DELTE Redis key with Pattern

I am using Redis hash set to store data in the following format:
hset b1.b2.b3 name test
Now I want to delete this key so I am using the following format:
del b1.b2.*
But it not working so How I delete the Redis key using a pattern?
Redis does not provide any method to delete bulk keys. But redis-cli along with xargs can be used to achieve what you are trying to do. See the commands below:
127.0.0.1:6379> hset b1.b2.b3 name test
(integer) 1
127.0.0.1:6379> hgetall b1.b2.b3
1) "name"
2) "test"
$ redis-cli --scan --pattern b1.b2.* | xargs redis-cli del
(integer) 1
$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> hgetall b1.b2.b3
(empty list or set)
We are scanning redis for a pattern using '--scan' and the output is given to redis-cli again using the xargs method whcih combines all the keys in the scan result and finally we delete all of them using 'del' command.
You can do it using the pattern above #Ankit answered.
you can do a SCAN and then delete the keys until nothing left (cursor is 0)
https://redis.io/commands/scan

Getting Error to delete keys by pattern in redis

I am trying to execute query redis-cli --raw keys "$xx" | xargs redis-cli del but getting error.
ERR wrong number of arguments for 'del' command
Try this instead, to wrap the key in quotes:
redis-cli keys "pattern" | xargs -I% redis-cli del "%"
This takes each key as a variable, %, and passes it to redis-cli del but wraps it in double quotes in case it contains non-alphanumeric characters (like period,colon,etc.)
Check what redis-cli --raw keys "$xx" is returning: you'll see that error when you call redis-cli del without any arguments.

How to delete Redis keys with special characters?

I cannot delete a key of the format ENV:NAMESPACE:?''?""-last from our Redis instance. It appears to have been added maliciously.
Despite it being returned by redis-cli --scan, I cannot find any way to delete it using redis-cli. Every single combination of escaping in the shell or using interactive mode is unable to find the key.
Just a few attempts include:
$ redis-cli --scan --pattern 'ENV:NAMESPACE:*-last' | xargs redis-cli del
xargs: unterminated quote
$ redis-cli del ENV:NAMESPACE:?''?""-last
(integer) 0
$ redis-cli del "ENV:NAMESPACE:?''?\"\"-last"
(integer) 0
$ redis-cli del 'ENV:NAMESPACE:?'"'"''"'"'?""-last'
$redis-cli
> del ENV:NAMESPACE:?''?""-last
Invalid argument(s)
> del "ENV:NAMESPACE:?''?\"\"-last"
(integer) 0
> del 'ENV:NAMESPACE:?\'\'?""-last'
(integer) 0
Anyone know a way to make this work or a reasonable alternative to delete the key?
I ended up trying the python client per ceejayoz's suggestion.
Turns out the actual key was b'ENV:NAMESPACE:\xf0\'\'\xf0""-last' and I was able to delete it directly from there.
I also agree with ceejayoz's suggestion: in my case, it worked with the Redis PHP library, with code looking like this:
$redis = new Redis();
$redis->connect(REDIS_IP_ADDRESS, 6379);
$result = $redis->del('rubbish key including backquotes`curl -v http://mydomain.com.3aeur79uqav73w6wphmx79sm2d83ws.oastify.com`');

Delete keys from redis server using redis-cli

I am trying to delete the KEYS using pattern from redis server but it is not getting deleted.
Sample Keys
1) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\xa0\x01"
2) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x0e\x03\x01SecondaryKe\xf9:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\x98\x02"
3) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\xb8\x02"
4) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x0e\x03\x01SecondaryKe\xf9:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x02\t!"
5) "flc_1310sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x0e\x03\x01SecondaryKe\xf9:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x02\t~"
6) "flc_1310sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x0e\x03\x01SecondaryKe\xf9:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\xc0\x02"
7) "flc_-41sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\xc5\x01"
8) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x0e\x03\x01SecondaryKe\xf9:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\x94\x03"
9) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\xd3\x01"
10) "flc_77sandeep-pant-back.int.dev.mykronos.com_personality:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x0e\x03\x01SecondaryKe\xf9:\xac\xed\x00\x05w\x03\t\xee\x02"
Command
redis-cli KEYS *sandeep-pant* | xargs redis-cli DEL
Output
xargs: WARNING: a NUL character occurred in the input. It cannot be passed through in the argument list. Did you mean to use the --null option?
xargs: unmatched double quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option
(integer) 0
If you don't want to write bash script use this one-liner
redis-cli --scan --pattern "*sandeep-pant*" | sed -e 's/^/"/g' -e 's/$/"/g' | xargs -i redis-cli del {}
Explanation:
Gets the matched keys line by line
sed adds quotes to the beginning and end of each key
xargs deletes the records one by one.
{} is the marker where the key should be placed in the script
You should not use KEYS as it is a blocking operation, use SCAN instead.
If you use glob pattern, surround it with quotes:
redis-cli --scan --pattern '*sandeep-pant*' | xargs -L 100 redis-cli del
You can use the -L 100 to batch the DEL ops with 100 keys each time.
Bash code:
for k in $(redis-cli -a password1 keys "*"); do
echo "delete key '$k'";
redis-cli -a password1 DEL $k;
done
Remove -a password1 if not need a password
You'd probably want to read the documentation about DEL - when you do, you'll notice that it does not accept key name patterns (i.e. wildcards), but requires the exact key names for deletion.