title: Memcache textual protocol cheatsheet?
body: <p>Memcached interface is implemented using a textual protocol.</p>
  
  <p>Sometimes it's very useful to be to fetch data stored on your remote server simply by invoking netcat with some shell kung fu, for example: To download the XML result of your nightly data crunching job you might run something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo "get 95ec6c7693ec53771c8a3fb1061562b8" | nc localhost 11211 &gt; console_overview_06_04_2010.xml
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  <p>The interesting part here is <strong>get SOME_UNIQUE_KEY</strong> which is part of the memcached protocol.</p>
  
  <p>What other useful usages can you suggest in regard to the ability to interact with memcached using nothing more then command line tools?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you,
  Maxim.</p>