PM-PREPARE(1)

💖 PM-PREPARE(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and honestly? it's the little setup fairy you didn't know you needed. let's get into it 🧚✨

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✨ NAME ✨

pm-prepare — the girl who gets your directories all cute and ready to hold a local NCBI Entrez Direct archive 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pm-prepare -db database

that's it. one flag. one job. slay.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, pm-prepare prepares directories to hold a local Entrez Direct archive. that's the whole vibe. 💅

but wait, there's more — it also advises you, okay? it tells you what steps to take so that access to this tree is quick and so that your system knows to treat it as a cache. it's giving helpful older sister energy fr fr. 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -db database — the specific database to cover. that's the one. the only one. iconic of her honestly. 💖

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE — the local archive directory to use. it's expected to hold an absolute path, so no relative-path shenanigans, bestie, she will not be playing that game. 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group, periodt:

• archive-nihocc(1)
• archive-nlmnlp(1)
• archive-nmcds(1)
• archive-pids(1)
• archive-pmc(1)
• archive-pubmed(1)
• archive-taxonomy(1)
• download-pmc(1)
• download-pubmed(1)
• pm-clean(1)
• pm-setup(1)
• rchive(1)

no cap: if you're doing anything with local archives, this is your girlies. go read them. iykyk 💜

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