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).

NCBI                                               2025-05-26                                          XFETCH(1)