Redis : How to set one key equal to the value of another key?

Question

Is there any quick command in REDIS which allows me to do the following

I want to set the Value of key Y equal to the value of Key X .

How do I go about doing this from the Redis Client .

I use the standard Redis-cli client .

Basically I am looking for some equivalent of the following -

 Y.Val() = X.Val()

Answers to this question are limited to duplicate a key of STRING type. However, since Redis 2.6, a more generic solution is to use the `DUMP` and `RESTORE` commands to do the job. Check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53479543/duplicate-a-key-in-redis/53481769#53481769) for detail. — for_stack, Nov 26 '18 at 13:20

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '12 at 13:45

You can do this with a Lua script:

redis.call('SET', KEYS[2], redis.call('GET', KEYS[1])); return 1;

KEYS1 is the source key
KEYS2 is the target key

The example below uses SCRIPT LOAD to create the script and invokes it using EVALSHA passing the following arguments:

The SHA1 returned from the script load
a 2 for the number of keys that will be passed
The source key
The target key.

Output:

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set src.key XXX
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get src.key
"XXX"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SCRIPT LOAD "redis.call('SET', KEYS[2], redis.call('GET', KEYS[1])); return 1;"
"1119c244463dce1ac3a19cdd4fda744e15e02cab"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> EVALSHA 1119c244463dce1ac3a19cdd4fda744e15e02cab 2 src.key target.key
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get target.key
"XXX"

It does appear to be a lot of stuff compared to simply doing a GET and then s SET, but once you've loaded the script (and memorized the SHA1) then you can reuse it repeatedly.

Kanagavelu Sugumar · Answer 2 · 2017-10-11T08:21:54.673

If you dont want script loading then below will work as a single command.

   127.0.0.1:6379> eval "return redis.call('SET', KEYS[2], redis.call('GET', KEYS[1]))" 2 key1 key2
   OK

Note that key1 value should be already set else you will get the below error

Lua redis() command arguments must be strings or integers

So check like below and set

127.0.0.1:6379> GET key1
(nil)
127.0.0.1:6379> SET key1 hello
OK

Now it will work.

If you want copy map to another new map key

eval "return redis.call('HMSET', KEYS[2], unpack(redis.call('HGETALL', KEYS[1])))" 2 existingMapKey newMapKey

One more way is while inserting time itself you can insert the value to two keys using MSET.

redis> MSET key1 "Hello" key2 "Hello"
"OK"
redis> GET key1
"Hello"
redis> GET key2
"Hello"

Ofcource this will not solve the issue of copying when the key is already created.

Also note that there is no way in redis more than one key is referring the same value object. All these workaround will create duplicate value objects. So if one of the value is updated will not reflect in another value object.

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 06 '21 at 12:30

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Since 6.2.0 you have a COPY command :

https://redis.io/commands/copy

answered Apr 06 '21 at 12:30

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 03:38

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No, there is no quick command to do this. You have to GET the value of the source key, and then SET the value of the new key.

Source: http://redis.io/commands#string

answered Jun 05 '12 at 03:38

ziad-saab

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When the value is simple like "hello world" then it is easy to use get/set. But when the values are complex to copy paste in cli, it is better to go with above lua solution. – Kanagavelu Sugumar Oct 11 '17 at 07:37

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