PM-COLLECT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is pm-collect(1) from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual — and it is literally here to collect records from a local NCBI PubMed archive. no cap 💖

• pm-collect — collect records from a local NCBI PubMed archive.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pm-collect archive current

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

pm-collect collects records from the local NCBI PubMed archive in archive into files with names of the form current/pubmed001.xml.gz, using any existing such files as a starting point. that's the whole vibe ✨

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• EDIRECT_CHUNK_SIZE — how many records to collect in each output file (250000 by default). she's the chunk-size queen 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• archive-pubmed(1)
• rchive(1)
• xtract(1)

go check them out, they're the besties 🫶

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xoxo, NCBI — this page is dated 2024-04-21, and the title is PM-COLLECT(1). bye bestie 💖🎀🦋