.TH PM-LOG 1 2018-10-08 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual" .SH NAME pm\-log \- summarize contents of NCBI PubMed dumps (updates) .SH SYNOPSIS \fBpm\-log\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBpm\-log\fP examines the NCBI PubMed article sets in the current directory and writes a list of added PubMed IDs (as is) and any deleted PubMed IDs (with \fBD\fP in a tab\-delimited second column) to a file named \fBtransactions.txt\fP in the current directory. (If such a file already exists, \fBpm\-log\fP will overwrite it.) .SH SEE ALSO .BR download\-pubmed (1), .BR xtract (1).