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+# Redli - a humane alternative to redis-cli
+
+## About
+
+Redli is a Go-based alternative to the official Redis-cli application. It's major feature is that it understands redis: and rediss: URLs and, unlike Redis-cli currently, can connect to TLS/SSL secured Redis without the need for tunnels. It also has a number of flags and environment variables for passing server certificates over as files or base64 strings.
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+redli [<flags>] <url>
+```
+
+### Flags:
+  * `--help` Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
+  * `--debug` Enable debug mode.
+  * `--long` Enable long prompt with host/port
+  * `--certfile=CERTFILE` Self-signed certificate file for validation
+  * `--certb64=CERTB64` Self-signed certificate string as base64 for validation
+
+#### Args:
+
+* `<url>`  URL to connect To. The URL is, at this point in development, mandatory. It follow the format of [the provisional IANA spec for Redis URLs](https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/redis), but with the option to denote a TLS secured connection with the protocol rediss:.
+
+## License
+
+Redli is released under the Apache 2 License.
+