Redis protocol generator in bash according to http://redis.io/topics/mass-insert. Use e.g. with `./fixture.sh |redis-cli --pipe`. Whitespaces within values are currently not supported.

gen-redis-protocol.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# License: MIT
# Author: Michael Weibel
#
gen_redis_protocol() {
	cmd=$1
	proto=""
	proto+="*"
	
	number_of_words=0
	byword=""
	for word in $cmd
	do
		number_of_words=$[number_of_words+1]
		byword+="$"
		byword+=${#word}
		byword+="\\r\\n"
		byword+=$word
		byword+="\\r\\n"
	done
	proto+=${number_of_words}
	proto+="\\r\\n"
	proto+=${byword}
	printf $proto
}

gen_redis_protocol "SET mykey Hello"