---
name: "dbtellquery"
section: "1e"
platform: "linux"
package: "emboss"
version: "6.6.0+dfsg-15"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dbtellquery"
---

# dbtellquery(1e)

Show possible queries of a database

## NAME

dbtellquery - Show possible queries of a database

## SYNOPSIS

**dbtellquery** **-database** *string* \[**-outfile** *outfile*\] \[**-html** *boolean*\]

**dbtellquery** **-help**

## DESCRIPTION

**dbtellquery** is a command line program from EMBOSS (“the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite”). It is part of the "Information" command group(s).

## OPTIONS

### Input section

- **-database** *string*

  The unique identifier of the database. These are listed in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat (field names in parenthesis) and can be the recommended or official unique identifier ('ID'), the alternative identifier ('IDalt'), or the accession number ('Acc') of the database. Any of these are acceptable. Official database identifiers and accession numbers are taken from http://www.uniprot.org/docs/dbxref where available. You can use dbfind to find databases by keyword and return unique identifiers and other information.

### Required section

### Additional section

### Advanced section

### Output section

- **-outfile** *outfile*

  Default value: stdout

### Html section

- **-html** *boolean*

  If you are sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. Default value: N

## BUGS

Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group\_id=93650&atid=605031).

## SEE ALSO

dbtellquery is fully documented via the **tfm**(1) system.

## AUTHOR

**Debian Med Packaging Team** \<debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org\>

Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

## 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.