.TH "BIORUBY" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
br_pmfetch \(em PubMed Client 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBbr_pmfetch\fR [\fB\fIoptions...\fR\fP]  ["query string"]  
.PP 
\fBbr_pmfetch\fR [\fB\-\-query\fI"query string"\fR\fP]  [\fB\fIother options...\fR\fP]  
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
This manual page documents briefly the 
\fBbr_pmfetch\fR. 
.PP 
\fBbr_pmfetch\fR is a command line program to query 
PubMed. It can take a variety of options (documented below) to restrict 
your search query, which is specified by the query string. 
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.IP "\fB-q\fP           \fB\-\-query\fP         " 10 
Query string for PubMed search. 
.IP "\fB-t\fP           \fB\-\-title\fP         " 10 
Title of the article to search. 
.IP "\fB-j\fP           \fB\-\-journal\fP         " 10 
Journal title to search. 
.IP "\fB-v\fP           \fB\-\-volume\fP         " 10 
Journal volume to search. 
.IP "\fB-i\fP           \fB\-\-issue\fP         " 10 
Journal issue to search. 
.IP "\fB-p\fP           \fB\-\-page\fP         " 10 
First page number of the article to search. 
.IP "\fB-a\fP           \fB\-\-author\fP         " 10 
Author name to search. 
.IP "\fB-m\fP           \fB\-\-mesh\fP         " 10 
MeSH term to search. 
.IP "\fB-f\fP           \fB\-\-format\fP         " 10 
Summary output format. Options are endnote, medline, bibitem, 
bibtex, report, abstract nature, science, genome_res, genome_biol, 
nar, current, trends, cell. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-pmidlist\fP         " 10 
Output only a list of PudMed IDs. 
.IP "\fB-n\fP           \fB\-\-retmax\fP         " 10 
Number of articles to retrieve at the maximum. 
.IP "\fB-N\fP           \fB\-\-retstart\fP         " 10 
Starting number of articles to retrieve. 
.IP "\fB-s\fP           \fB\-\-sort\fP         " 10 
Sort method for the summary output. Options are author, 
journal, pub+date. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-reldate\fP         " 10 
Search articles published within recent # of days. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-mindate\fP         " 10 
Search articles published after the date YYYY/MM/DD. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-maxdate\fP         " 10 
Search articles published before the date YYYY/MM/DD. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-help\fP         " 10 
Output help and then exit. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-examples\fP         " 10 
Output example usages and then exit. 
.IP "          \fB\-\-version\fP         " 10 
Output version number and then exit. 
.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
The following pages have information on the PubMed search 
options: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html  
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esearch_help.html 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
This manual page was written by David Nusinow dnusinow@debian.org for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others).  Permission is 
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under 
the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any  
later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 
 
.PP 
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public 
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 
 
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