Memcached: set command

‘set’ command is used to set value to a key. Following is the syntax of set command.

Syntax

set key flags exptime bytes [noreply] value

Following table summarizes the arguments of set command.

Argument	Description
key	Name of the key.
flags	It is 32-bit unsigned integer, stored along with the data in the server and retrieved when you get the <key value> pair.
exptime	Expiry time of the data stored in cache. It is represented in seconds.
bytes	length of the data in bytes that needs to be stored in Memcached.
noreply	It is optional, when you pass this parameter, server don’t send any reply back to you.
value	Value to be stored in Memcached server.

Open new terminal and use telnet to connect to memcached server.

telnet <hostname> <port>

By default memcached server listen on port 11211.

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

Once you connected to server, you can able to perform all CRUD operations.

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
set harikrishna 0 900 11
memcached

STORED
get harikrishna
VALUE harikrishna 0 11
memcached

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