SHOWDB(1e)

💖 SHOWDB(1e) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to showdb(1e) — that's the 1e manual section, and yes this page comes straight out of the EMBOSS Manual for Debian. it's giving "let me spill the tea on your configured databases" and honestly? iconic. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

showdb — Displays information on configured databases

no cap, that's the whole job. it tells you stuff about the databases you've already set up. simple, clean, slay. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

showdb [-database string] [-html boolean] [-protein boolean]
       [-nucleic boolean] [-sequence boolean] [-feature boolean]
       [-text boolean] [-taxonomy boolean] [-resource boolean]
       [-assembly boolean] [-obo boolean] [-full boolean]
       [-methods boolean] [-fields boolean] [-defined boolean]
       [-release boolean] -only toggle -heading boolean -type boolean
       -id boolean -query boolean -all boolean -comment boolean
       [-outfile outfile]

showdb -help

see how some of those are in [brackets] and some are just… sitting there raw with no brackets? yeah bestie, that's not a typo, that's literally how it's written. i don't make the rules, i just read them. 😭

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

showdb is a command line program from EMBOSS — that's "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite", the full name, hold the applause. 👑

it belongs to the "Data resources" command group(s). that's its lil clique. that's where it hangs out. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🌈 Input section 🌈

• -database string — you hand it a database name, that's the input, that's the vibe. 🍓

💜 Additional section 💜

• -html boolean — Default value: N
• -protein boolean — Default value: Y
• -nucleic boolean — Default value: Y
• -sequence boolean — Default value: Y
• -feature boolean — Default value: Y
• -text boolean — Default value: Y
• -taxonomy boolean — Default value: Y
• -resource boolean — Default value: Y
• -assembly boolean — Default value: Y
• -obo boolean — Default value: Y
• -full boolean — Default value: N
• -methods boolean — This displays the access methods that can be used on this database, for all, query or ID access. Default value: $(full)
• -fields boolean — This displays the search fields that can be used on this database, other than the standard 'id' or 'acc' fields. Default value: $(full)
• -defined boolean — This displays a short name for the file containing the database definition. Default value: $(full)
• -release boolean — Default value: $(full)

not me noticing that $(full) keeps showing up as a default like it's the main character of this section 💀 it's literally the blueprint. the template. the moment.

🧚 Advanced section 🧚

• -only toggle — This is a way of shortening the command line if you only want a few standard columns to be displayed. Instead of specifying: '-nohead -notype -noid -noquery -noall' to get only the comment output, you can specify '-only -comment'. Default value: N

bestie listen — that's the glow-up move. instead of typing out that whole '-nohead -notype -noid -noquery -noall' situation like it's a chore, you just say '-only -comment' and you're done. efficiency ate. 💅

• -heading boolean — Default value: @(!$(only))
• -type boolean — Default value: @(!$(only))
• -id boolean — Default value: @(!$(only))
• -query boolean — Default value: @(!$(only))
• -all boolean — Default value: @(!$(only))
• -comment boolean — Default value: @(!$(only))

look at all those @(!$(only)) defaults being little mirror images of each other. obsessed with the consistency, fr fr. 🌸

🫶 Output section 🫶

• -outfile outfile — Default value: stdout

if you don't say where it goes, it goes to stdout. that's the default, that's the plan, that's the whole point. 😌

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? rude of it, honestly. you can report it to the Debian Bug Tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/emboss, or you can go straight to the EMBOSS developers at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031.

go get 'em bestie, they deserve to know. 🫡

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

showdb is fully documented via the tfm(1) system.

iykyk. go read the tfm(1) if you want the deep lore. 📚

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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.

they wrote the script that wrote this. meta? kinda. iconic? absolutely. ✨

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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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okay that's the whole page, you made it, i'm so proud of you 🥹

this lil masterpiece is from EMBOSS 6.4.0 and it's dated 05/11/2012 — vintage, lowkey timeless, and showdb(1e) forever. bye bestie, go display some databases 💅🌸🦋