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XFETCH

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO

NAME

xfetch - fetch records from a local NCBI Entrez Direct archive by UID

SYNOPSIS

xfetch [ -db database ] [ -id str ...| -input file ] [ -stream ]

DESCRIPTION

xfetch prints to standard output requested portions of a local NCBI Entrez Direct archive produced by archive-pubmed (1) or the like, typically for further processing by xtract (1) or the like.

By default, it looks to standard input for either a raw list of UIDs or an ENTREZ_DIRECT XML object that additionally holds a database name.

OPTIONS

-db database

Fetch from the specified database, pubmed by default for now. (Explicitly specifying a database either on the command line or via ENTREZ_DIRECT XML will eventually become mandatory.)

-id str ...

UID(s) to fetch; may be internally delimited by whitespace and any punctuation other than . or _ .

-input file

Read UIDs from the specified file.

-stream

Leave records compressed.

ENVIRONMENT

EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE

Local archive directory. Expected to hold an absolute path; mandatory when not supplying a path on the command line.

SEE ALSO

archive-nihocc (1), archive-nlmnlp (1), archive-nmcds (1), archive-pids (1), archive-pmc (1), archive-pubmed (1), archive-taxonomy (1), cit2pmid (1), combine-uid-lists (1), difference-uid-lists (1), download-ncbi-data (1), download-pmc (1), download-pubmed (1), ds2pme (1), ds2pme (1), ecollect (1), edict (1), efetch (1), elink (1), esample (1), esearch (1), exclude-uid-lists (1), intersect-uid-lists (1), pm-refresh (1), pma2apa (1), pma2apa (1), pma2pme (1), pma2pme (1), pmc2bioc (1), pmc2info (1), rchive (1), transmute (1), xfilter (1), xinfo (1), xlink (1), xsearch (1), xtract (1).