MEMCAT(1)

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💖 MEMCAT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the memcat page from libmemcached-awesome — grab a boba, we're reading keys out of a memcached server and it's gonna be cute and it's gonna be correct. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

memcat — libmemcached Documentation

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

memcat [options] key [key...]

Read and output the value of one key or the values of a set of keys.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so memcat reads and outputs the value of a single key — or a whole lil squad of keys — that are stored in a memcached(1) server. that's it, that's the gig. ✨

if any key is not found, an error is returned. no key, no vibes, sorry bestie. 😭

it's basically the standard UNIX cat(1) utility, but make it memcached. same energy, different server. 🐱

fr fr, if you fw cat, you're gonna fw this.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — display help. your little "what do i do" button. 🫶
  • -V, --version — display version. show me the numbers bestie.
  • -q, --quiet — operate quietly. 🤫
  • -v, --verbose — operate more verbosely. give me ALL the tea. ☕
  • -d, --debug — see -v|--verbose. it's giving "same thing, different name". 👯
  • -s, --servers <list of servers> — specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...]. that's how you tell it who to talk to. 🌐
  • -n, --non-blocking — enable non-blocking operations. no waiting around, no standing in line. 💨
  • -N, --tcp-nodelay — disable Nagle's algorithm. 🚫🐌
  • -b, --binary — enable binary protocol.
  • -B, --buffer — buffer requests. hold that thought, hold it, hold it… ok go. 📦
  • -u, --username <username> — use username for SASL authentication. 🔐
  • -p, --password <password> — use password for SASL authentication. 🤐
  • -F, --flags — display key's flags. 🏴
  • -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. ✨

💜 NOTES 💜

PROGRAM PREFIX

the prefix of this program is variable — i.e. it can be configured at build time. 🔧

usually the client programs of libmemcached-awesome are prefixed with mem, like memcat or memcp. iconic behavior tbh. 😌

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. so like — same program, new name tag. don't panic if the name's a little different than you expected, ok? she's still her. 🦋

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🥳 this was libmemcached-awesome, version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2026, filed under MEMCAT(1). go forth and memcat responsibly. slay 💅✨

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