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NAME

       br_pmfetch — PubMed Client

SYNOPSIS

       br_pmfetch [options...]  ["query string"]

       br_pmfetch [--query"query string"]  [other options...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the br_pmfetch.

       br_pmfetch  is  a  command  line program to query PubMed. It can take a variety of options
       (documented below) to restrict your search query, which is specified by the query string.

OPTIONS

       -q           --query
                 Query string for PubMed search.

       -t           --title
                 Title of the article to search.

       -j           --journal
                 Journal title to search.

       -v           --volume
                 Journal volume to search.

       -i           --issue
                 Journal issue to search.

       -p           --page
                 First page number of the article to search.

       -a           --author
                 Author name to search.

       -m           --mesh
                 MeSH term to search.

       -f           --format
                 Summary output format. Options are endnote, medline,  bibitem,  bibtex,  report,
                 abstract nature, science, genome_res, genome_biol, nar, current, trends, cell.

                 --pmidlist
                 Output only a list of PudMed IDs.

       -n           --retmax
                 Number of articles to retrieve at the maximum.

       -N           --retstart
                 Starting number of articles to retrieve.

       -s           --sort
                 Sort method for the summary output. Options are author, journal, pub+date.

                 --reldate
                 Search articles published within recent # of days.

                 --mindate
                 Search articles published after the date YYYY/MM/DD.

                 --maxdate
                 Search articles published before the date YYYY/MM/DD.

                 --help
                 Output help and then exit.

                 --examples
                 Output example usages and then exit.

                 --version
                 Output version number and then exit.

SEE ALSO

       The    following    pages    have    information    on    the   PubMed   search   options:
       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html
       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esearch_help.html

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by David Nusinow dnusinow@debian.org for the Debian system
       (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
       document  under  the  terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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