OAI_BROWSER(1p)

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version 4.13 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, meet oai_browser — it's a command line OAI repository browser, and it's here to be your lil' window into an OAI-compliant repo. no cap, it just does the thing. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the tea is: the oai_browser utility gives you a command-line tool to browse an OAI-compliant repository. that's it, that's the vibe. you point it at a repository and it goes and gets the goods for you. main character energy fr fr. 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

oai_browser.pl [options] arguments

yes she's a Perl script, the .pl is right there, we love her for it. 🫶

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • baseURL — specify the baseURL to connect to. this is the one you actually need, bestie — it's the address of the repository you wanna go snooping in. don't skip her. 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --help — show this page. the classic. the icon. when in doubt, ask for help. ⭐
  • --silent — don't display data harvested from the repository — only shows a record count. so like, she's still doing the work, she's just not gonna yap about it. you get the count and nothing else. lowkey iconic for when you just wanna know how much is in there. 🙈
  • --trace — turn on trace debugging. for when you need to see everything going on under the hood. 👑
  • --tracesax — turn on trace debugging of SAX calls. yep, that's SAX specifically — she's got her own dedicated trace flag and honestly? respect. 🔥
  • --skip-identify — don't perform an initial Identify to check the repository's baseURL. so normally she does an Identify first to make sure the baseURL is legit, and this flag says "nah, skip that, I trust you." your call, babe. ✨
real talk though: --trace and --tracesax are gonna be loud. that's the whole point of them, but just so you're not surprised when your terminal starts screaming. 😭

💜 a lil sign-off 💜

this page comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's sitting pretty at perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-09-28. it lives in section 1p of the manual — that's OAI_BROWSER(1p) for anyone keeping score. go browse something cute, bestie. 🎀🦋✨

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