.TH PM-PREPARE 1 2023-02-18 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual" .SH NAME pm\-prepare \- prepare directories to hold a local NCBI PubMed archive .SH SYNOPSIS \fBpm\-prepare\fP \fImaster\fP \fIworking\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBpm\-prepare\fP prepares \fImaster\fP and \fIworking\fP directories to hold a local NCBI PubMed archive. It also advises the user on steps to ensure that access to this tree is quick and that the system knows to treat it as a cache. .SH SEE ALSO .BR archive\-pubmed (1), .BR index\-pubmed (1).