EDICT(1)

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version 24.0.20250523 · 2 versions
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👑 EDICT — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, you found the edict(1) page — that's section 1 of the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and yes we're doing the whole thing, no skimming, no skipping, periodt. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

edict — an HTTP server for the EDirect local PubMed archive and search system. it's giving "your archive, but make it queryable over the network." 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

edict [-host host] [-port port]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: edict serves up an HTTP interface so you can query a local Entrez Direct archive. that's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? iconic for it. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -host host — tell it to listen on one specific network interface, picky queen. and lowkey important: -host localhost will disallow remote connections, so if you want it locked down to just you, that's your move. 🔒
  • -port port — listen on the given TCP port. the default is 8080, no cap. 🔥

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE — the local archive directory to serve. heads up bestie, it's expected to hold an absolute path. not a relative lil guy, a full absolute path, fr fr. 📁

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

archive-pubmed(1), cit2pmid(1), nquire(1), xfetch(1), xinfo(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1)

go read those too, they're all part of the friend group. 💜

and that's the whole page, you ate it. this lil beauty comes to you from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26 — so go spin up that archive server, bestie, the main character energy is yours now. 💖✨🎀

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