What's the simplest way to get a dump of all memcached keys into a file?

Question

This is from just a single memcached server with around 20M keys (no expiry) and around 2G of data.

What\'s the easiest way to get a dump of all the key/value pairs

Answer 1

Bash

Using Bash and save into the file:

exec {memcache}<>/dev/tcp/localhost/11211
printf "stats items\nquit\n" >&${memcache}
cat <&${memcache} > myfile.txt

Related: Writing a Redis client in pure bash (it's Redis, but very similar approach)