NAME

epost - upload a batch of NCBI Entrez record identifiers

SYNOPSIS

epost (edirect -post) [-help] [-db name] [-id ID(s)] [-format fmt] [-input filename] [-label name]

DESCRIPTION

epost uploads a batch of record identifiers (textual accessions or numeric UIDs) to Entrez history servers for processing by other edirect commands. By default, it reads these identifiers from standard input.

OPTIONS

-help

Print usage information.

-db name

Indicate that the identifiers are from the specified database.

-id ID(s)

Specify identifiers directly.

-format fmt

uid or acc(ession).

-input filename

Read from filename instead of standard input (which is then free to receive pipeline state from other edirect commands).

-label name

Alias for query step.

SEE ALSO

edirect(1), elink(1).