DBSHOWDAT(1e)

💖 dbshowdat — it's giving "which queries can even return this data type" 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the EMBOSS Manual for Debian, and the command is dbshowdat from section 1e of the manual. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing Unix.

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✨ NAME ✨

dbshowdat — show possible database queries that return a given data type 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dbshowdat -datatype string -database string -identifier string
          [-outfile outfile] [-html boolean]

dbshowdat -help

like, that's the whole vibe check right there. -datatype, -database and -identifier are the main character trio, and -outfile and -html are the optional little side quests. and obviously there's the -help glow-up if you're lost. 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

dbshowdat is a command line program from EMBOSS ("the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite"). no cap, that's literally its whole thing. it's part of the "Information" command group(s). 💫

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🌸 Input section 🌸

• -datatype string — bestie, this is the name of a retrievable datatype from the catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat. the names are terms from the 'data' branch of the EDAM ontology, http://edamontology.sourceforge.net/. if you're unsure of the available retrievable datatypes for a given database, use dbtellquery. and if you have a datatype name but aren't sure it's valid, use isdbdata. we love a validation moment. ✨

🎀 Required section 🎀

so this section is just... empty. nothing here. the audacity honestly 💀 but fr fr, that's what the page says, so we're saying it too.

🦋 Additional section 🦋

also empty. we're giving it a moment of silence. 🙈

💜 Advanced section 💜

• -database string — this is the name of a database from the catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat. if you're unsure of the available databases use dbfind. if you have a database name but you're not sure it's valid, use isdbname. iconic helper-command energy, lowkey. 👑
• -identifier string — this is a data identifier (e.g. a sequence accession number) that gets used to specify the data (of type 'datatype') to retrieve. if you're unsure of the data identifier(s) used for a given query (database/datatype) use dbtellquery. the types of data identifier are listed under the 'Data identifier' branch of the EDAM ontology (http://edamontology.sourceforge.net/). for example values, see the catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat. and if you have a data identifier but you're unsure of its type, use idtell. not me giving you the whole referral network 😭 so helpful though.

🌈 Output section 🌈

• -outfile outfile — default value: stdout. yes bestie, it just spills out onto your terminal unless you say otherwise. 🫧

⭐ Html section ⭐

• -html boolean — if you are sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. default value: N. so like, N for no, Y for yasss table. (the page doesn't say "Y" is a value, so don't come for me — it just says the default is N. 💅)

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💀 BUGS 💀

bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031). so if something's cursed, go tell them, not me. 🐛

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

dbshowdat is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. so if you want the deep lore, that's where it lives. 📚

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

• Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

shoutout to the autogeneration script, doing the lord's work fr. 🎀

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package. It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself. periodt. ✨

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ok so that's the whole page, no details left behind, every flag accounted for. go forth and dbshowdat, bestie. 🦋

EMBOSS 6.4.0 — dated 05/11/2012 — and that's the DBSHOWDAT(1e) sign-off, mwah 💋