NAME
br_pmfetch — PubMed Client
SYNOPSIS
br_pmfetch [options...] ["query string"]
br_pmfetch [--query"query string"] [other options...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the br_pmfetch.
br_pmfetch is a command line program to query PubMed. It can take a variety of options (documented below) to restrict your search query, which is specified by the query string.
OPTIONS
- -q --query
-
Query string for PubMed search.
- -t --title
-
Title of the article to search.
- -j --journal
-
Journal title to search.
- -v --volume
-
Journal volume to search.
- -i --issue
-
Journal issue to search.
- -p --page
-
First page number of the article to search.
- -a --author
-
Author name to search.
- -m --mesh
-
MeSH term to search.
- -f --format
-
Summary output format. Options are endnote, medline, bibitem, bibtex, report, abstract nature, science, genome_res, genome_biol, nar, current, trends, cell.
- --pmidlist
-
Output only a list of PudMed IDs.
- -n --retmax
-
Number of articles to retrieve at the maximum.
- -N --retstart
-
Starting number of articles to retrieve.
- -s --sort
-
Sort method for the summary output. Options are author, journal, pub+date.
- --reldate
-
Search articles published within recent # of days.
- --mindate
-
Search articles published after the date YYYY/MM/DD.
- --maxdate
-
Search articles published before the date YYYY/MM/DD.
- --help
-
Output help and then exit.
- --examples
-
Output example usages and then exit.
- --version
-
Output version number and then exit.
SEE ALSO
The following pages have information on the PubMed search options: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esearch_help.html
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Nusinow [email protected] for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.