---
name: "memcdump"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmemcached-tools"
version: "1.1.4-1.1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/memcdump"
---

# memcdump(1)

libmemcached Documentation

## NAME

memdump - libmemcached Documentation

## SYNOPSIS

memdump \[options\]

Dump a list of keys from a server.

## DESCRIPTION

**memdump**  dumps a list of "keys" from all servers that it is told to fetch from. Because memcached does not guarantee to provide all keys it is not possible to get a complete "dump".

## 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\|--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)](/memcached/1.md)* *[libmemcached(3)](/libmemcached/3.md)*