EINFO(1) | NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual | EINFO(1) |
einfo - look up general NCBI Entrez database information
einfo (edirect -info) [-help] [-dbs] [-db name] [-fields] [-links]
einfo looks up general information about either an individual NCBI Entrez database with which other edirect(1) commands can work or the set of available databases as a whole.
It has two implementations: a shell implementation on top of nquire(1) and a traditional Perl implementation that amounts to running edirect -info, enabled by setting the environment variable USE_NEW_EDIRECT to a false value as described in the ENVIRONMENT section.
einfo is also the name of an tool for accessing contents of local EPUB files. To resolve this ambiguity, Debian systems with both EPUB utilities and Entrez Direct installed arrange for the EPUB-related executable to have the name einfo.epub(1) and for einfo to be a wrapper script that examines its usage and proceeds to run whichever of edirect -info or einfo.epub(1) looks like a better fit.
2021-01-20 | NCBI |