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Synopsis

memcapable [options]

Check a memcached server's capabilities and compatibility.

Description

memcapable connects to the specified memcached server and tries to determine its capabilities by running various commands and verifying the response.

Options

-h hostname

Specify the hostname to connect to. The default is localhost​.

-p port

Specify the port number to connect to. The default is 11211​.

-c

abort(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/abort> when detecting an error from the server.

-v

Print out the comparison when it detects an error from the server.

-t n

Set the timeout for an IO operation to/from the server to n seconds.

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.

Contributed Program

This is a contributed program.

This program doesn't follow the standard flag/option scheme.

See Also

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

Referenced By

libmemcached(3).

Sep 01, 2026 1.1 libmemcached-awesome