MEMPING(1)

👑 MEMPING — the libmemcached-awesome glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, we're talking about memping from libmemcached-awesome, and trust me, this is the little icon of the family. it's one of the libmemcached client programs, and it's here to do one thing and do it flawlessly. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

memping — this is the libmemcached Documentation, no cap 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

memping [options] [server]

Test for availability of a server — that's the whole job description, and she ate. 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, memping is literally your vibe-check tool for memcached. you point it at a memcached server and it goes "hey girl, are you accepting connections?" and the server either responds or it doesn't. that's it, that's the tea. ☕✨

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h, --help — show the help text, queen of self-explanation 👑
• -V, --version — spill the version info 📜
• -q, --quiet — operate quietly 🤫 (she's giving mysterious, lowkey)
• -v, --verbose — operate more verbosely 🗣️ give me ALL the details
• -d, --debug — same energy as -v, --verbose. literally see -v|--verbose. same thing bestie 💀
• -u, --username <username> — use username for SASL authentication 🪪
• -p, --password <password> — use password for SASL authentication 🔐
• -s, --servers <list of servers> — specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...] 📋 like a little roster of servers, comma-separated, ports optional, iconic

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• MEMCACHED_SERVERS — specify a list of servers 🌍 the environment variable walked so you could run 🧚

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🌸 NOTES 🌸

🌟 PROGRAM PREFIX 🌟

the prefix of this program is variable — meaning it can be configured at build time. not fixed. flexible. main character energy. 💅

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

but it can be configured to replace the prefix with something else, like mc. and in that case, the client programs of libmemcached-awesome would be called mccat, mccp, etc. respectively. so yes, your muscle memory for mem* commands can absolutely get humbled at build time. 😭 choose your prefix era wisely 🦋

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached>
• libmemcached(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/libmemcached>
• C/C++ Client Library for memcached <>

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pro tip, fr fr: don't sleep on reading the SEE ALSO links, they're the lore. 📚

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from libmemcached-awesome, version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2026, and the manpage is literally called MEMPING(1). go ping something and go off. 💖✨🫶