Setting dynamic path in the redis.conf using the Environment variable

Because Redis can read its config from stdin, I do something very similar to what @jolestar suggested. I put placeholder variables in my redis.conf and then replace them using sed in my Redis launcher. For example:

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$MY_HOME/redis/redis.conf
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...
pidfile {DIR}/pids/server{n}.pid
port 123{n}
...

Then I have a script to start Redis:

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runredis.sh
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DIR=$MY_HOME/redis
for n in {1..4}; do
    echo "starting redis-server #$n ..."
    sed -e "s/{n}/$n/g" -e "s/{DIR}/$DIR/g" < $DIR/redis.conf | redis-server -
done

I've been using this approach forever and it works out well.