Scroll to navigation

EINFO(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual EINFO(1)

NAME

einfo - look up general NCBI Entrez database information

SYNOPSIS

einfo (edirect -info) [-help] [-db name] [-dbs] [-fields] [-links]

DESCRIPTION

einfo looks up general information about either an individual NCBI Entrez database with which other edirect(1) commands can work or the set of available databases as a whole.

einfo is also the name of an tool for accessing contents of local EPUB files. To resolve this ambiguity, Debian systems with both EPUB utilities and Entrez Direct installed arrange for the EPUB-related executable to have the name einfo.epub(1) and for einfo to be a wrapper script that examines its usage and proceeds to run whichever of edirect -info or einfo.epub(1) looks like a better fit.

OPTIONS

Database Selection

-db name
Print information on the specified Entrez database, as an XML eInfoResult document.
-dbs
Print a plain-text list of all available Entrez databases.

Data Summaries

-fields
Print just an XML-structured summary of fields in the specified database.
-links
Print just an XML-structured summary of links to and from the specified database.

Miscellaneous

-help
Print usage information, complete with samples of -fields and -links XML output.

SEE ALSO

edirect(1), einfo.epub(1), elink(1).
2017-01-24 NCBI