Script to connect to a Heroku app's Redis instance

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/sh

echo "Connecting to Heroku Redis instance..."

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
  echo "Executing \`$1\`..."
fi

url=`heroku config | grep REDISTOGO_URL | awk '{ print $3 }'`

host=`echo $url | awk -F '@' '{ print $2 }' | awk -F ':' '{ print $1 }'`
port=`echo $url | awk -F ':' '{ print $NF }' | sed -e 's/\/$//'`
api_key=`echo $url | awk -F '@' '{ print $1 }' | awk -F ':' '{ print $NF }'`

redis-cli -h $host -p $port -a $api_key $1