NAME

memcached-cli - Interactive/Batch CLI for Memcached

SYNOPSIS

Run an interactive CLI:

memcached-cli <HOST[:PORT] | /path/to/socket> [OPTIONS]
memcached-cli --addr|-a <HOST[:PORT] | /path/to/socket> [OPTIONS]
memcached-cli [OPTIONS]  # Connect to 127.0.0.1:11211

These above turns into interactive mode like below:

memcached@SERVER:PORT>
memcached@SERVER:PORT> \h    # show help
memcached@SERVER:PORT> \d    # display slabs info

Run as batch script:

memcached-cli [options] <command> [<args>]

Show Help/Manual:

# For general usage
memcached-cli -h|--help
memcached-cli --man

# For available commands
memcached-cli help
memcached-cli help <command>

DESCRIPTION

This script runs an interactive CLI or batch utility for Memcached.

In interactive mode, it connects to a specified Memcached server and interactively executes each command you run.

In batch mode, you can execute any command which you can do in interactive mode.

COMMANDS

NOTE:

A couple of features of following commands derives from memcached/memcached-tool

display|\d

Displays slabs statistics.

This command comes from memcached/memcached-tool.

stats|\s REGEXP

Shows general statistics of memcached server by stats command. You can filter the parameters of stats by optional REGEXP argument.

Comes from memcached/memcached-tool.

settings|config|\c REGEXP

Shows memcached server settings by stats settings command. You can filter the parameters of stats by optional REGEXP argument.

Comes from memcached/memcached-tool, too.

cachedump|dump|\cd CLASS [NUMBER]

Shows keys and sizes and expiration times of some items in specified slab CLASS.

You can specify NUMBER of items to show. Without NUMBER option, shows 20 items only by default.

detaildump|\dd

Reports statistics about data access using KEY prefix. The default separator for prefix is ':'.

If you have not enabled reporting at Memcached start-up, you can enable it by command detail on.

See man memcached(1) for details.

detail MODE

Enables or disables stats collection for stats detail dump reporting.

MODE should be either "on" or "off" to enable or to disable.

get KEY

Gets one item in memcached by specified KEY and shows its data.

set KEY VALUE [EXPIRE [FLAGS]]

Stores data into memcached by specified KEY, VALUE and optional EXPIRE and FLAGS.

delete KEY

Deletes one item in memcached by specified KEY.

flush_all|flush [DELAY]

Invalidates all data in memcached by flush_all command.

With DELAY option, invalidation is delayed for specified seconds.

See official documentation of memcached for details.

version

Shows memcahed server version.

quit|exit|\q

Exits program in interactive mode.

help|\h [COMMAND]

Shows available COMMANDs and summary of their usage.

With optional COMMAND argument, shows detailed information of it.

OPTIONS

-t|--timeout=Int

Sets connection timeout. Default is 1 seconds.

-d|--debug

Shows debug logs.

SEE ALSO

App::Memcached::CLI::Main, memcached(1), http://www.memcached.org/

AUTHORS

YASUTAKE Kiyoshi <yasutake.kiyoshi@gmail.com>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2015 YASUTAKE Kiyoshi.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. That means either (a) the GNU General Public License or (b) the Artistic License.