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ECONTACT(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual ECONTACT(1)

NAME

econtact - adjust contact information for an edirect pipeline (DEPRECATED)

SYNOPSIS

econtact (edirect -contact) [-help] [-email address] [-tool name]

DESCRIPTION

Note: econtact will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. Instead, please set the EMAIL environment variable appropriately, or supply explicit -email settings to individual commands.

econtact adjusts the e-mail address and/or client name that subsequent edirect(1) pipeline stages will send to have someone to notify in case a runaway script causes problems with an NCBI Entrez server.

OPTIONS

Print usage information.
Send the given e-mail address.
Send the given client name.

SEE ALSO

eaddress(1), edirect(1), edirutil(1), enotify(1), eproxy(1).

2021-03-07 NCBI