einfo - look up general NCBI Entrez database information
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Description
einfo looks up general information about either an individual NCBI Entrez database with which other
Entrez Direct commands can work or the set of available databases as a whole.
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 einfo.epub(1) or einfo.ncbi looks like a better fit.
Name
einfo - look up general NCBI Entrez database information
Options
DatabaseSelection-dbs Print a plain-text list of all available Entrez databases.
-dbname
Print information on the specified Entrez database (or all), as an XML eInfoResult document.
DataSummaries-fields
Print just an XML-structured summary of fields in the specified database.
-links Print just an XML-structured summary of links to and from the specified database.
Miscellaneous-help Print usage information, complete with samples of -fields and -links XML output.
See Also
einfo.epub(1), elink(1), nquire(1). NCBI 2023-01-24 EINFO(1)
Synopsis
einfo [-help] [-dbs] [-dbname] [-fields] [-links]
