EADDRESS(1)

📦 version 14.6.20210224, in ubuntu jammy

💌 EADDRESS(1) — the "who even am I to NCBI" checker

okay bestie, quick vibe check first: this is part of the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and honestly? it's giving legacy. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

eaddress — peeks at what edirect thinks your e-mail address is. (DEPRECATED, bestie, I'm so serious) 💀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

eaddress

edirect -address

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

heads up!! eaddress will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. she's retiring, and we respect her journey. 🙈

but like, don't panic — several other commands, einfo included, take a -debug flag that will reveal an nquire command line containing the email address they pass. so the info is still findable, just in a different outfit. 💅

so what does eaddress actually do? she prints to standard output the e-mail address that other edirect(1) subcommands will send by default, so that there's someone to notify in case a runaway script causes problems with an NCBI Entrez server. like, it's the "hey, if my script goes feral, contact this human" address. 😭

here's the lore on how she figures it out:

  • If the EMAIL environment variable is set, edirect will honor it. periodt. 👑
  • Otherwise, she combines a username from the USER environment variable — or the one reported by whoami(1) — with a hostname from /etc/mailname or uname(2), attempting to obtain a fully qualified form if necessary. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

mwah, that's the whole page!! 🎀 this one's from the fine folks at NCBI, dated 2021-03-07, and yeah — she's deprecated, so treat her like a cute throwback and go check einfo's -debug flag instead. iykyk 🦋💖

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