.TH EDIRECT 1 2021-03-07 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
.SH NAME
edirect \- access NCBI Entrez from the command line (DEPRECATED)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B edirect\ \-version

\fBesearch\fP (\fBedirect\ \-search\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBelink\fP (\fBedirect\ \-link\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBefilter\fP (\fBedirect\ \-filter\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBesummary\fP (\fBedirect\ \-summary\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBefetch\fP (\fBedirect\ \-fetch\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBeinfo\fP (\fBedirect\ \-info\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBepost\fP (\fBedirect\ \-post\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBespell\fP (\fBedirect\ \-spell\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBecitmatch\fP (\fBedirect\ \-citmatch\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBeproxy\fP (\fBedirect\ \-proxy\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBecontact\fP (\fBedirect\ \-contact\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBenotify\fP (\fBedirect\ \-notify\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBeaddress\fP (\fBedirect\ \-address\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBeblast\fP (\fBedirect\ \-blast\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBftp\-ls\fP (\fBedirect\ \-ftpls\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBftp\-cp\fP (\fBedirect\ \-ftpcp\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBtransmute\fP (\fBedirect\ \-tmute\fP) \fIoptions\fP

\fBedirect\ \-nquir\fP \fIoptions\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBNote:\fP \fBedirect\fP might not appear
in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct.
However, several individual commands
(\fBesearch\fP through \fBepost\fP)
live on as \fBnquire\fP\-based shell scripts.

\fBedirect\fP (Entrez Direct) is a command\-line utility
for consulting NCBI's set of interconnected databases
(publication, sequence, structure, gene, variation, expression, etc.)
in a variety of fashions,
most of which are documented individually in dedicated man pages.
(The one exception is \fBedirect \-nquir\fP,
which roughly corresponds to \fBnquire\fP but is fully independent.)
.SH COMMON OPTIONS
Most subcommands accept the following options,
in addition to command\-specific options.
.TP
\fB\-help\fP
Print usage information.
.TP
\fB\-email\fP\ \fIaddress\fP
Send the given e\-mail address to have someone to notify
in case a runaway script causes problems
with an NCBI Entrez server.
.TP
\fB\-tool\fP\ \fIname
Send the given client name.
.TP
\fB\-http\fP[\fBs\fP]\ \fBget\fP
Force the use of \fBGET\fP rather than \fBPOST\fP HTTPS requests.
.TP
\fB-alias\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Specify a file of shortcut keywords and query strings or URL sections.
.TP
\fB\-silent\fP
Suppress connection failure retry messages.
.TP
\fB\-verbose\fP
Display the \fBENTREZ_DIRECT\fP XML field values at each step.
.TP
\fB\-debug\fP
Print the internal URL query and XML results of each step.
.TP
\fB\-base\fP\ \fIURL\fP
Specify a particular server for quality assurance testing.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B EDIRECT_DO_AUTO_ABBREV
Accept (currently) unambiguous truncated option names,
as in \fB\-verbo\fP for \fB\-verbose\fP.
.TP
.B NCBI_API_KEY
NCBI E\-Utilities API key,
allowing for a higher request rate
at the cost of some anonymity.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR eaddress (1),
.BR eblast (1),
.BR ecitmatch (1),
.BR econtact (1),
.BR efetch (1),
.BR efilter (1),
.BR einfo (1),
.BR elink (1),
.BR enotify (1),
.BR entrez\-phrase\-search (1),
.BR epost (1),
.BR eproxy (1),
.BR esearch (1),
.BR espell (1),
.BR esummary (1),
.BR ftp\-cp (1),
.BR ftp\-ls (1),
.BR nquire (1),
.BR transmute (1),
.BR xtract (1).