XLINK(1)

📦 version 24.0.20250523, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about xlink 💖 this one lives in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual (section 1, general commands, the classic), and its whole thing is looking up related local NCBI Entrez Direct archive search results. yes. archive-adjacent. we love her.

✨ NAME ✨

xlink — look up related local NCBI Entrez Direct archive search results 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xlink [-h[elp]|[--]help] -target target

that's it. that's the whole shape of her. 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea: this page says xfilter looks up records related to results from a previous local Entrez Direct archive search.

and yes, bestie, I clocked it — the manpage says xfilter right there in the xlink description. not me editing the source material 💀. I'm telling you exactly what it says, no cap, because that's the rule: the vibe changes, the facts do not. so: xfilter looks up records related to results from a previous local Entrez Direct archive search. fr fr.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -target target — the cross-reference type 🎯 like CITED for PubMed, for example. that's the vibe. iykyk.
  • -h[elp]|[--]help — prints a summary of options plus an example pipeline 🫶 honestly iconic of her to just hand you a whole pipeline to look at.
tiny heads-up: the help flag is written with those brackets on purpose — -h, -help, --help, all of that family. don't @ me, that's literally how it's spelled. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole group chat, alphabetically-ish, exactly as listed, no one left out 👑:

archive-nihocc(1), archive-nlmnlp(1), archive-nmcds(1), archive-pids(1), archive-pmc(1), archive-pubmed(1), archive-taxonomy(1), cit2pmid(1), combine-uid-lists(1), difference-uid-lists(1), download-ncbi-data(1), download-pmc(1), download-pubmed(1), edict(1), ecollect(1), efetch(1), elink(1), esearch(1), exclude-uid-lists(1), intersect-uid-lists(1), pm-refresh(1), rchive(1), xfetch(1), xfilter(1), xinfo(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1), xtract(1).

(yes xlink(1) links to xlink(1). she's self-referential. main character energy. periodt.)

and that's a wrap, babe 🌸 this page is from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26, and the manual page is XLINK(1) — go forth and cross-reference responsibly, bestie 💅✨

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