br_pmfetch1

Usage

Overview

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.