ECONTACT(1)

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💌 ECONTACT(1) — bestie's guide to the NCBI Entrez Direct manual 💌

okay so. welcome to econtact, a lil page from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual. she's cute, she's useful-ish, and she's DEPRECATED — which we'll get into, don't worry 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

econtact — adjust contact information for an edirect pipeline

(DEPRECATED) — yes bestie, the vibes are immaculate but the future is not hers 💀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

econtact (edirect -contact) [-help] [-email address] [-tool name]

she's a lil alias-flavored situation, note the (edirect -contact) — that's how you're actually gonna call her, iykyk ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Note: econtact will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. Instead, please set the EMAIL environment variable appropriately, or supply explicit -email settings to individual commands.

okay so real talk, she's being phased out 😭 the glow-up replacement is literally just setting EMAIL in your environment, or passing -email directly to whichever individual commands you're running. that's it. that's the whole successor arc.

so what did she do, back in her main character era? econtact adjusts the e-mail address and/or the client name that subsequent edirect(1) pipeline stages will send along — the whole point being that NCBI has someone to notify in case a runaway script causes problems with an NCBI Entrez server 🏃‍♀️💨

like. it's the "hey if my code goes feral, here's who to email" setting. very responsible of you honestly, very grown-up, very accountability queen 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -help — print usage information. classic. she tells you how to use her 💅
  • -email address — send the given e-mail address. drop your contact deets here 📧
  • -tool name — send the given client name. this is the name of your tool/client that NCBI sees 👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read the rest of the fam, they're all slaying in their own ways 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! no cap, every option, every note, every deprecation warning, all of it 💖

much love from the NCBI girlies — this one's dated 2021-03-07, filed under ECONTACT(1) ✨🎀🦋

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