MEMDUMP(1)

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version 1.1.4 · 7 versions
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💾 MEMDUMP(1) 💾

okay bestie, welcome to the memdump page — it lives in the libmemcached-awesome family, and it's about to be your fave little key-scooper. 🧚✨

✨ NAME ✨

memdump — libmemcached Documentation

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

memdump [options]

Dump a list of keys from a server. that's the whole vibe, no cap 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so memdump dumps a list of "keys" from all the servers it's been told to fetch from. like, all of them. it goes and collects. 🎀

but — and this is the important part, so listen up — because memcached does not guarantee to provide all keys, it is not possible to get a complete "dump". that's not a memdump skill issue, that's just how memcached works. so don't come for her. 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — Display help. your little rescue blanket when you forget everything 🫶
  • -V, --version — Display version. flex the build, iconically
  • -q, --quiet — Operate quietly. shhh, main character silence 🤫
  • -v, --verbose — Operate more verbosely. tell me EVERYTHING, oversharing is a love language
  • -d, --debug — See -v|--verbose. literally the same thing, it's giving alias energy 💀
  • -s, --servers <list of servers> — Specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...]. yes you can list several, comma-separated, go off 🔥
  • -n, --non-blocking — Enable non-blocking operations. no waiting around, we're busy girls 💅
  • -N, --tcp-nodelay — Disable Nagle's algorithm. bye bye buffering delay, we love a low-latency moment ⚡
  • -b, --binary — Enable binary protocol. fancy mode: on ✨
  • -B, --buffer — Buffer requests. stack 'em up like a to-be-read pile 📚
  • -u, --username <username> — Use username for SASL authentication. who dis, prove it 🪪
  • -p, --password <password> — Use password for SASL authentication. the secret handshake, keep it in the group chat 🔐
  • -f, --file [<file>] — Output to file instead of standard output. go live somewhere else bestie 📝
NOTE: defaults to <key> if no argument was provided. so if you don't hand her a filename, she'll just use the key. periodt. 💖

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • MEMCACHED_SERVERS — Specify a list of servers. set it once, vibe forever 🌸

👑 NOTES 👑

🎀 PROGRAM PREFIX 🎀

the prefix of this program is variable, i.e. it can be configured at build time. yes, at build time, not runtime, don't @ me. 🧚

usually the client programs of libmemcached-awesome are prefixed with mem, like memcat or memcp. cute, consistent, on brand. ✨

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. same squad, different name tag. 💅

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓 and fr fr, this was libmemcached-awesome version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2026 — iconic, timeless, we stan. now go dump those keys, mwah 💖👑🌙

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