ECITMATCH(1)

📦 version 14.6.20210224, in ubuntu jammy

💖 ECITMATCH — bestie's guide to looking up a citation's PubMed ID 💖

okay so first thing, and I need you to hear me on this: this one is DEPRECATED. like, it's giving "still works but the group chat is moving on". it lives in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, manual section 1, so if you're the kind of girl who reads man pages for fun (me, I'm her) — welcome home 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ecitmatch — look up a citation's PubMed ID (DEPRECATED) 💀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ecitmatch (edirect -citmatch) [-help] [-journal title] [-year year]
[-volume N] [-page N] [-author name]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

heads up, bestie: ecitmatch will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. so enjoy her while she's here 🥲

ecitmatch prints — to standard output, like a normal icon — the numeric PubMed identifier for a specified article.

and here's the tea on what comes back:

  • if there were multiple matches, it substitutes a parenthesized expression of the form (n citations) ✨
  • if there were no matches, it prints nothing at all. silence. ghosted. not even a single character 🫥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -help — print a summary of available options. the classic "what do I even do here" button 🫶
  • -journal title — match only articles whose journal has the given title. and yes, the title may be specified as a standard abbreviation — abbreviate away, queen 👑
  • -year year — match only articles published in the given year 📅
  • -volume N — match only articles with the given volume number 📚
  • -page N — match only articles starting on the given page number 📄
  • -author name — match only articles with the given author name. she may be partial, but she may not be repeated — one author, one shot, no do-overs, periodt 🚫

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

edirect(1) — the main character herself 💜

that's the whole page, fr fr. it's short, it's deprecated, it's iconic in a "we don't talk about her anymore" way 😭

sending you off with the receipts: this page came from NCBI, dated 2021-03-07 ⭐ stay hydrated, run man on things, and don't be a deprecated flag in someone else's life 💖🧚‍♀️🌸

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