NAME

       epost - upload a batch of NCBI Entrez record identifiers

SYNOPSIS

       epost (edirect -post) [-help] [-db name] [-id ID(s)] [-format fmt] [-input filename]

DESCRIPTION

       epost uploads a batch of record identifiers (textual accessions or numeric UIDs) to Entrez
       history servers for processing by other edirect commands.   By  default,  it  reads  these
       identifiers from standard input.

       It  has  two implementations: a shell implementation on top of nquire(1) and a traditional
       Perl implementation that  amounts  to  running  edirect  -post,  enabled  by  setting  the
       environment  variable  USE_NEW_EDIRECT  to  a  false value as described in the ENVIRONMENT
       section.

OPTIONS

       -help  Print usage information.

       -db name
              Indicate that the identifiers are from the specified database.

       -id ID(s)
              Specify identifiers directly.

       -format fmt
              uid or acc(ession).

       -input filename
              Read from filename instead of  standard  input  (which  is  then  free  to  receive
              pipeline state from other edirect commands).

ENVIRONMENT

       USE_NEW_EDIRECT
              Whether  to  use  the current shell implementation or revert to the historical Perl
              implementation.   Canonical  true  values  are  1,  on   (case-insensitive),   true
              (case-insensitive),  and  yes (case-insensitive); canonical false values are 0, off
              (case-insensitive), false (case-insensitive), and no (case-insensitive).

SEE ALSO

       edirect(1), elink(1), nquire(1).