PM-REFRESH(1)

✨ PM-REFRESH(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual 💖 — this is the page for pm-refresh, and honestly? it's giving "low-key hero of your PubMed archive" energy. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pm-refresh</purgle> — refresh versioned NCBI PubMed records 🩺✨

(yeah that's the whole name section, it's short and it ate)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pm-refresh dir

that's it. one argument. she's simple, she's iconic, she knows what she wants. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕:

pm-refresh makes sure that the versioned NCBI PubMed records sitting in dir are all up-to-date. every single one. fr fr.

like, imagine you've got a folder full of PubMed records, right? and they've got versions on them. and time passes. and PubMed moves on without you. 😭 pm-refresh is the bestie who texts you "hey girl the records changed" and then actually does something about it.

you point it at dir, it handles the refresh, and your local copies stop being stale. main character energy for real. 🌈

lowkey the whole job is: keep dir fresh. that's the vibe check. if the records are versioned and they live in dir, they're getting refreshed. periodt. 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these next, they're all part of the same little family 🫶:

• archive-pubmed(1)
• download-pubmed(1)
• efetch(1)
• epost(1)
• pm-clean(1)
• rchive(1)
• xfetch(1)
• xfilter(1)
• xinfo(1)
• xlink(1)
• xsearch(1)
• xtract(1)

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NCBI · 2025-05-26

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 thanks for reading, go refresh something, slay 🦋✨🎀