MEMCAT(1)

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version 1.1.4 · 7 versions
, in epel 10

🎀 NAME 🎀

Ok bestie, welcome to memcat(1) from libmemcached-awesome — this is the manual page, and memcat literally means libmemcached Documentation 📚💖.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

memcat [options] key [key...]

Read and output the value of one key or the values of a set of keys. Slay, that's the whole vibe 🫶.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

memcat reads and outputs the value of a single key or a set of keys stored in a memcached(1) server.

If any key is not found an error is returned. Not the chillest outcome, but that's the rule 😭.

It is similar to the standard UNIX cat(1) utility. Think cat energy, but for memcached keys 🐈‍⬛✨.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h|--help — Display help. Your little "what do I do" button 🫶.
  • -V|--version — Display version. Know the era you're in 💫.
  • -q|--quiet — Operate quietly. Shhh, main character is working 🤫.
  • -v|--verbose — Operate more verbosely. Turn up the yapping 🗣️.
  • -d|--debug — See -v|--verbose. Same energy, different flag 💅.
  • -s|--servers <list of servers> — Specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...] 🌐.
  • -n|--non-blocking — Enable non-blocking operations. No waiting around, we're busy 🦋.
  • -N|--tcp-nodelay — Disable Nagle's algorithm. Bye-bye, delay vibes ⚡.
  • -b|--binary — Enable binary protocol. Binary baddie behavior 🔥.
  • -B|--buffer — Buffer requests. Collect the little guys first 🧺.
  • -u|--username <username> — Use username for SASL authentication 🔐.
  • -p|--password <password> — Use password for SASL authentication 🔑.
  • -F|--flags — Display key's flags. Show off those little flag details 🚩.
  • -H|--hash <algorithm> — Use algorithm as key hash algo. See memcached_behavior_t::MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASH 🧮.
  • -f|--file [<file>] — Output to file instead of standard output 📄.
NOTE: defaults to <key> if no argument was provided 🙈.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • MEMCACHED_SERVERS — Specify a list of servers. Env var doing env var things 💖.

🌼 NOTES 🌼

🎀 PROGRAM PREFIX 🎀

The prefix of this program is variable, i.e. it can be configured at build time. Flexible icon behavior ✨.

Usually the client programs of libmemcached-awesome are prefixed with mem, like memcat or memcp.

It can be configured, though, to replace the prefix with something else like mc, in case of that, the client programs of libmemcached-awesome would be called mccat, mccp, etc. respectively. Name glow-up, no cap 💅.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

This iconic page is from libmemcached-awesome, version 1.1, dated Jul 18, 2024 — bye bestie, go read some keys 💋✨

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