GETPUB(1)

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✨ GETPUB(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to getpub — it's a little tool from the NCBI Tools User's Manual and it's giving very niche, very useful 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

getpub — the way it literally looks up Medline entries by UID 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

getpub [-] [-b] [-i filename] [-o filename] [-t filename] [-u N]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ getpub does a lookup for Medline entries by Medline UID.

and bestie, real talk: it requires its input to have already been indexed by indexpub(1). no index, no vibes. periodt. 💀

💖 OPTIONS 💖

here's the full rundown, no skips, no shortcuts 👑

  • - — prints the usage message 🫶
  • -b — output data is binary (rather than ASCII text) ASN.1 ✨
  • -i filename — input data (binary Pub-set; default = medline.val) 📥
  • -o filename — output data (default = stdout) 📤
  • -t filename — input index table (default = medline.idx) 🗂️
  • -u N — Medline UID to find (default = 88055872) 🔍

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. iconic, honestly 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

getmesh(1), indexpub(1) — go read those too, they're in the same friend group 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from NCBI, dated 2001-10-05 🎀 mwah, go index something 💖✨

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