einfo - look up general NCBI Entrez database information
einfo [
-help] [
-dbs] [
-db name] [
-fields] [
-links]
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.
- -dbs
- Print a plain-text list of all available Entrez
databases.
-
-db name
- Print information on the specified Entrez database (or
all), as an XML eInfoResult document.
- -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.
- -help
- Print usage information, complete with samples of
-fields and -links XML output.
einfo.epub(1),
elink(1),
nquire(1).