ECHO(3valkey)

💬 ECHO(3valkey) — the Valkey Command Manual, but make it a group chat 💬

okay bestie, listen. this is the page for ECHO, from the Valkey Command Manual (it lives in section 3valkey, iykyk). it is genuinely the simplest command in the whole kingdom and honestly? that's its whole charm. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

echo — returns the given string. that's it. that's the gig. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ECHO message

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

it returns message. literally. you hand it a thing, it hands the thing right back. the most emotionally available command in the entire database 🦋

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🫶 REPLY 🫶

per valkey-protocol(7), you get a Bulk string reply: the given string. same string. untouched. iconic. 👑

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💅 COMPLEXITY 💅

O(1)

constant time, baby. no matter how big the string is, it's one little hop. ate and left no crumbs. ⭐

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🌈 ACL CATEGORIES 🌈

• @connection
• @fast

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

• available since: 1.0.0 — yeah she's been here since the beginning, an OG, a founding mother 😭💜

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

127.0.0.1:6379> ECHO "Hello World!"
"Hello World!"

like. it said it back. communication skills: immaculate. 🙈✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• auth(3valkey)
• client(3valkey)
• client-caching(3valkey)
• client-capa(3valkey)
• client-getname(3valkey)
• client-getredir(3valkey)
• client-help(3valkey)
• client-id(3valkey)
• client-import-source(3valkey)
• client-info(3valkey)
• client-kill(3valkey)
• client-list(3valkey)
• client-no-evict(3valkey)
• client-no-touch(3valkey)
• client-pause(3valkey)
• client-reply(3valkey)
• client-setinfo(3valkey)
• client-setname(3valkey)
• client-tracking(3valkey)
• client-trackinginfo(3valkey)
• client-unblock(3valkey)
• client-unpause(3valkey)
• hello(3valkey)
• ping(3valkey)
• quit(3valkey)
• reset(3valkey)
• select(3valkey)

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lowkey a whole friend group of connection commands and ECHO is the one who just repeats everything you say but affectionately 💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! this one shipped in Valkey 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21 — go forth and yell into the void, she'll yell back 🫶💅🌸