Memcached commands : Commands that memcached server understands
When connecting to memcached from the command line, a handful of commands are available to you for communicating with it. These are :
Mmecached Commands :
| Comamnd | Usage |
|---|---|
| set |
>set mykey 0 1000 7 >myvalue Add a key-value pair or replace an existing key in memcahed. Here 1000 is the expiry time of this key-value pair in secondsand 7 is the length of the value i.e. 'myvalue'. |
| get | >get mykey >myvalue Fetches the value from memcahed for the key supplied. |
| delete |
>delete mykey Deletes a key-value pair from memache |
| flush_all | Flushes all data from memcached |
| stats | Provides statistics of a running memcached server and is explained in more detail in next page. |