NAME

       fetch-pubmed - fetch records from a local NCBI PubMed archive by UID

SYNOPSIS

       fetch-pubmed [-strict|-mixed] [[-path] dir] [-all] [-fresh]

DESCRIPTION

       fetch-pubmed  reads a list of record IDs from standard input and prints to standard output
       the corresponding portions of a local NCBI PubMed archive produced  by  archive-pubmed(1),
       typically for further processing by xtract(1) or the like.

OPTIONS

       [-strict|-mixed]
              Run rchive(1) with -flag strict or -flag mixed, respectively.

       [-path] dir
              Place the local archive in dir.

       -all   Dump the entire archive.

       -fresh Dump  the  entire  archive  into  filenames of the form pubmed001.xml.gz, using any
              existing such files as a starting point.

ENVIRONMENT

       EDIRECT_PUBMED_MASTER
              Local archive directory to use in the  absence  of  -path.   Expected  to  hold  an
              absolute path; mandatory when not supplying a path on the command line.

SEE ALSO

       archive-pubmed(1), phrase-search(1), rchive(1), stream-pubmed(1), xtract(1).