JUST-TOP-HITS(1)

🎀 JUST-TOP-HITS 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and today's main character is just-top-hits 💅 she's tiny, she's powerful, she's a filter, and honestly? she ate.

✨ NAME ✨

just-top-hits — truncate a tab-delimited file 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

just-top-hits [N]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like. just-top-hits is a Unix-style filter 🌈 and what she does is truncate a tab-delimited file. She keeps only the lines whose first field has the first N distinct values — everything after that? gone, bye, not invited 💀

The file is primarily expected to be pre-sorted in some fashion by that first field. She's trusting you on that one, she's not gonna re-sort it for you, she's just vibing on the assumption that you already handled it 🙈

• N defaults to 1 if you don't specify it. no N? she assumes one. periodt.
• comparisons are case-sensitive ngl — so Apple and apple are two whole different girls to her, she does not conflate them ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• filter-columns(1)
• print-columns(1)
• reorder-columns(1)
• sort-table(1)
• xsearch(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this absolute icon comes to you from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26 — go forth, truncate responsibly, and remember: distinct first fields only, no cap 💖✨🎀