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

# isdbname(1e)

Check whether a supplied string is a known database name

## NAME

isdbname - Check whether a supplied string is a known database name

## SYNOPSIS

**isdbname** \[**-term** *string*\] \[**-infout** *toggle*\] **-outfile** *outfile*

**isdbname** **-help**

## DESCRIPTION

**isdbname** 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

- **-term** *string*

  ### Required section

### Additional section

- **-infout** *toggle*

  This option will write to file information (from the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat) for the database with a name that matches the supplied string. Default value: N

### Advanced section

### Output section

- **-outfile** *outfile*

  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

isdbname 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.