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EDIRECT(1) | NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual | EDIRECT(1) |
NAME¶
edirect - access NCBI Entrez from the command line
SYNOPSIS¶
edirect -version
esearch (edirect -search) options
elink (edirect -link) options
efilter (edirect -filter) options
esummary (edirect -summary) options
efetch (edirect -fetch) options
einfo (edirect -info) options
epost (edirect -post) options
espell (edirect -spell) options
ecitmatch (edirect -citmatch) options
eproxy (edirect -proxy) options
econtact (edirect -contact) options
enotify (edirect -notify) options
eaddress (edirect -address) options
DESCRIPTION¶
edirect (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, each of which is documented individually in a dedicated man page.
COMMON OPTIONS¶
Most subcommands accept the following options, in addition to command-specific options.
- -help
- Print usage information.
- -email address
- Send the given e-mail address to have someone to notify in case a runaway script causes problems with an NCBI Entrez server.
- -tool name
- Send the given client name.
- -http[s] get
- Force the use of GET rather than POST HTTPS requests.
- -alias filename
- Specify a file of shortcut keywords and query strings or URL sections.
- -silent
- Suppress connection failure retry messages.
- -verbose
- Display the ENTREZ_DIRECT XML field values at each step.
- -debug
- Print the internal URL query and XML results of each step.
- -base URL
- Specify a particular server for quality assurance testing.
SEE ALSO¶
eaddress(1), ecitmatch(1), econtact(1), efetch(1), efilter(1), einfo(1), elink(1), enotify(1), entrez-phrase-search(1), epost(1), eproxy(1), esearch(1), espell(1), esummary(1), nquire(1), xtract(1).
2017-01-24 | NCBI |