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).