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

# textsearch(1e)

Search the textual description of sequence(s)

## NAME

textsearch - Search the textual description of sequence(s)

## SYNOPSIS

**textsearch** **-sequence** *seqall* **-pattern** *string* \[**-casesensitive** *boolean*\] \[**-html** *boolean*\] **-only** *boolean* **-heading** *boolean* **-usa** *boolean* **-accession** *boolean* **-name** *boolean* **-description** *boolean* **-outfile** *outfile*

**textsearch** **-help**

## DESCRIPTION

**textsearch** is a command line program from EMBOSS (“the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite”). It is part of the "Data retrieval:Text data" command group(s).

## OPTIONS

### Input section

- **-sequence** *seqall*

  ### Required section

- **-pattern** *string*

  The search pattern is a regular expression. Use a \| to indicate OR. For example: human\|mouse will find text with either 'human' OR 'mouse' in the text

### Additional section

- **-casesensitive** *boolean*

  Default value: N

### Output section

- **-html** *boolean*

  Default value: N

- **-only** *boolean*

  This is a way of shortening the command line if you only want a few things to be displayed. Instead of specifying: '-nohead -noname -nousa -noacc -nodesc' to get only the name output, you can specify '-only -name' Default value: N

- **-heading** *boolean*

  Default value: @(!$(only))

- **-usa** *boolean*

  Default value: @(!$(only))

- **-accession** *boolean*

  Default value: @(!$(only))

- **-name** *boolean*

  Default value: @(!$(only))

- **-description** *boolean*

  Default value: @(!$(only))

- **-outfile** *outfile*

  ## 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

textsearch 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.