---
name: "br_pmfetch"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ruby-bio"
version: "1.5.2-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/br_pmfetch"
---

# br\_pmfetch(1)

PubMed Client

## 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 dnusinow@debian.org 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.