DBXRESOURCE(1e)

💖 DBXRESOURCE(1e) — the EMBOSS Manual for Debian, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let's talk about dbxresource 🫶 this little icon lives in the EMBOSS manual, and yes it's 1e, and yes it's from the EMBOSS Manual for Debian. she's giving utility-core, she's giving indexer energy, and honestly? we're obsessed.

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✨ NAME ✨

dbxresource — index a data resource catalogue using b+tree indices 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dbxresource -dbname string -standardname string -dbresource string
            -directory directory -filenames string -fields list
            -compressed boolean -release string -date string
            -exclude string -indexoutdir outdir -outfile outfile

dbxresource -help

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so dbxresource is a command line program from EMBOSS — and for the uninitiated, that stands for "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite" 👑 no cap, that's the whole name, we don't make the rules.

she's part of the "Utils:Database indexing" command group(s), so if you're into that, you're in the right place. iykyk 💜

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🌈 Input section 🌈

• -dbname string — what's the database called, bestie? default is drcat ✨
• -standardname string — default is $(dbname) (yes, it literally references the one above, she's self-referential like that 💀)
• -dbresource string — default is drcatresource
• -directory directory — default is . (as in, right here, where you already are 🏠)
• -filenames string — default is DRCAT.dat

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🔥 Required section 🔥

like the name says, these ones are NOT optional, no skipping, periodt.

• -fields list — default is * (the whole thing, everything, all of it 💖)
• -compressed boolean — default is Y ✅

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🦋 Advanced section 🦋

for when you're feeling spicy 🌶️

• -release string — default is 0.0
• -date string — default is 00/00/00
• -exclude string — no default here, it's giving mystery, it's giving "you decide" 💅

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⭐ Output section ⭐

• -indexoutdir outdir — default is . (the indices go right here, home sweet home 🎀)
• -outfile outfile — where the output goes 🫶

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😭 BUGS 😭

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay, we handle it. report it to the Debian Bug Tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/emboss, or go straight to the EMBOSS developers at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031 🌸

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

dbxresource is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. that's the whole tea ☕

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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. iconic behaviour, honestly 🙈

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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. ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🥰 this was EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012, and she's still serving DBXRESOURCE(1e) realness to this very day. go index something, you absolute main character 💖🦋💅