DECRBY

Subtracts an integer amount from a string counter.

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DECRBY key decrement

The case uses a positive decrement and reads back the resulting numeric string.

Tested example & replies

Requests below run in order against an empty database. Each connection authenticates with the fixture password first. Quoted values are strings; null is a nil reply; arrays preserve RESP order.

# connection: default
> SET counter 10
"OK"
# connection: default
> DECRBY counter 3
7
# connection: default
> GET counter
"7"