RUN-NCBI-CONVERTER(1)

💖 run-ncbi-converter — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this page lives inside the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and it's giving "tiny command, big main character energy". no cap, it's short, but it slays. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

run-ncbi-converter — run a converter from NCBI's FTP site 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

run-ncbi-converter name arg [...]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, run-ncbi-converter runs one of the tools from NCBI's FTP site with whatever arguments you hand it. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

and the way that it keeps a cache of the tools it's already downloaded? iconic. that cache lives in $NCBI_CONVERTER_DIR, which — if you haven't set it — defaults to $HOME/.cache/ncbi-converters. so like, your downloads aren't just yeeted into the void every time, they're cozy in there. 💖

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• name — the converter you wanna run, bestie. literally just the name of the tool. 👑
• arg — an argument to supply to it. you can pass more than one, obviously, that's the [...] energy. 🍓

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• download-ncbi-software(1)
• efetch(1)

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k bye bestie, go run a converter, you got this 💜✨

mwah 💋 — brought to you by NCBI, dated 2023-02-01 🎀