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

# embossdata(1e)

Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files

## NAME

embossdata - Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files

## SYNOPSIS

**embossdata** \[**-showall** *toggle*\] **-fetch** *boolean* **-filename** *string* **-reject** *selection* \[**-outfile** *outfile*\]

**embossdata** **-help**

## DESCRIPTION

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

## OPTIONS

### Input section

- **-showall** *toggle*

  - **-fetch** *boolean*

  - **-filename** *string*

  This specifies the name of the file that should be fetched into the current directory or searched for in all of the directories that EMBOSS programs search when looking for a data file. The name of the file is not altered when it is fetched.

### Advanced section

- **-reject** *selection*

  This specifies the names of the sub-directories of the EMBOSS data directory that should be ignored when displaying data directories. Default value: 3, 5, 6

### Output section

- **-outfile** *outfile*

  This specifies the name of the file that the results of a search for a file in the various data directories is written to. By default these results are written to the screen (stdout). Default value: stdout

## 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

embossdata 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.