Go to the Redis official website (http://redis.io/download) to download the installation package to the local folder, such as in the Mac Application Folder (/applications/), the terminal into the Redis folder.
You need to compile to run a Mac-side Redis, and the compilation method is:
into the SRC folder, we can see the makefile file in the Mac terminal input:
Make
This command, visible terminal scrolling display compile information, wait a moment to compile the completion. Compiling is the compilation of many source files into binary executable programs, like the Windows EXE.
After compiling, there are several more files in the SRC folder, of which two are important, one is redis-server, the other is REDIS-CLI, which is the same as the Windows client, the service side and the client of Redis.
First of all, to run the Redis server, directly in the SRC directory, in the Mac terminal input./redis-server,mac The Redis server is started. At this time, create a new terminal window, also in the SRC directory input./redis-cli into the client.
Test Redis command OK on the terminal.
This is for the terminal. Not very convenient. You can find a visual Mac version of Redis from the web. This is mainly used for database operation. The server side of the background is used more.
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