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libmemcached Documentation

Synopsis

memcat [options] key [key...]

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

Description

memcat reads and outputs the value of a single or a set of keys stored in a memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached> server.

If any key is not found an error is returned.

It is similar to the standard UNIX cat(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/cat> utility.

Options

-h|--help

Display help.

-V|--version

Display version.

-q|--quiet

Operate quietly.

-v|--verbose

Operate more verbosely.

-d|--debug

See -v|--verbose​.

-s|--servers <list of servers>

Specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...]​.

-n|--non-blocking

Enable non-blocking operations.

-N|--tcp-nodelay

Disable Nagle's algorithm.

-b|--binary

Enable binary protocol.

-B|--buffer

Buffer requests.

-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 <#_CPPv4N20memcached_behavior_t23MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASHE>​.

-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​.

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.

See Also

memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached> libmemcached(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/libmemcached> libmemcached_configuration(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/libmemcached_configuration>

Referenced By

libmemcached(3).

Sep 01, 2026 1.1 libmemcached-awesome