PM-SETUP(1)

✨ pm-setup — the directory-making era ✨

okay so real quick, bestie: this is a page from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and it's all about a lil command called pm-setup. it's giving very "set up the vibes, do nothing else" and honestly? we respect the focus. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pm-setup — makes the directories you need to hold a local NCBI Entrez Direct archive. that's it, that's the job. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pm-setup -db database

one flag, one dream. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so pm-setup creates directories to hold a local NCBI PubMed archive. that's literally the whole personality. 🌈

and the way that it's NOT like pm-prepare(1)?? because pm-prepare(1) keeps going and does a bunch of other stuff, and pm-setup is just like "nope, directories only, bye" 🙈 — it performs no further actions. lowkey iconic of it to know its limits, ngl. ✋

🧚 OPTIONS 🧚

• -db database — the specific database you want to cover. like, pick your fave, bestie. 💜

🍓 ENVIRONMENT 🍓

• EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE — the local archive directory to use. it's expected to hold an absolute path, so no sneaky relative paths, okay?? fr fr. ⭐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're all part of the cinematic universe 💫:

• archive-nihocc(1)
• archive-nlmnlp(1)
• archive-nmcds(1)
• archive-pids(1)
• archive-pmc(1)
• archive-pubmed(1)
• archive-taxonomy(1)
• pm-prepare(1)
• rchive(1)

💀 heads up bestie: rchive(1) in that list? not a typo on my part. that's literally the name. keep it exactly as it is, no cap. 🙏

💖 and that's the whole page!! shoutout to NCBI, who wrote this one on 2025-05-26, and whose name is right there in the corner like the main character it is. mwah, go set up those directories. 🫶✨🌸