On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:14:08PM -0400, theBlueSage wrote:
> After 'man'ing the tool on both machines it appears the CentOS version
> truly does not have the '-q' option, and that the Ubuntu version really
> needs it. 
> 
> How is it possible that such a nice tool can get soooo messed up? Anyone
> know a way around this?

There are probably any number of approaches.  For example, I don't
believe CentOS has /etc/lsb-release, but Ubuntu does... so you can do
something like this:

  # Figure out what to run
  nc_option=""
  if [ -f /etc/lsb-release ]; then
      nc_option="-q1"
  fi
  nc_command="nc $nc_option localhost 11211"
  
  # Now run it
  echo "stats" | $nc_command
  
A better approach would be to test netcat directly...  You could set
up a routine that runs a netcat command with the -q option, and
captures the stderr, and do the right thing based on that...  

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