.TH PM-INDEX 1 2019-09-17 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
.SH NAME
pm\-index \- index a local NCBI PubMed archive
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBpm\-index\fP
\fIdir\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpm\-index\fP indexes
the compressed NCBI PubMed XML files in the current directory,
producing corresponding compressed index files in \fIdir\fP.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR archive\-pubmed (1),
.BR download\-pubmed (1),
.BR index\-pubmed (1),
.BR pm\-collect (1),
.BR pm\-invert (1),
.BR xtract (1).