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tokenizerrr
Cool. Why?
ttul
Because bash.
OskarS
Why ask "why" when the delicious question is "why not?"
tokenizerrr
I do honestly think this is cool. The readme does not make it clear if this is a joke (which would be fine), or has any practical use whatsoever (which would be awesome).
sbarre
Potentially as a dev-environment-only drop-in for an application that uses Memcached in production?

It's not like full-blown Memcached is hard to set up locally, so this might be a bit of a stretch. ;-)

lobo_tuerto
Would be good to see some benchmarks on this! :)
c3RlcGhlbnI_
They won't look very good. I'm pretty sure the hash map data type that bash provides is of a fixed size, so performance will degrade pretty quickly as the number of cached items increases past that.
make_now_just
Sorry. Benchmarks is too wrong to use in production. In fact, it is x200~1000+ slower than real memcached.
thecopy
Awesome! These small tools built on top of standard GNU tools are so refreshing.
tener
I wonder how many security holes this thing has. can != should.
ardacinar
It's obviously more oriented towards testing and stuff (as something compatible with memcached, but lighter) more than actual production use. Security holes are a bit less urgent in that case.
make_now_just
Now, it uses socat instead of ncat because socat is more simple than ncat and it can cut off lsof.