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ARCHIVE-PMC(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual ARCHIVE-PMC(1)

NAME

archive-pmc - maintain a local NCBI PubMed Central archive

SYNOPSIS

archive-pmc [[-]download] [[-]verify] [[-]missing] [[-]daily|[-][re]index] [[-]stem[med]] [[-]clean|[-]clear|[-]scrap|[-]scrub|[-]scour|[-]erase|[-]zap] [-info] [-ftp|-http[s]]

DESCRIPTION

archive-pmc prepares a directory to hold a local PubMed Central archive, then downloads a full database dump from NCBI's servers, organizes the dump into an rchive(1) trie, and refreshes the versioned records.

OPTIONS

[-]download
Download the dump but perform no further processing.
[-]verify
Verify that all downloaded files are in good shape.
[-]missing
Check for missing downloads.
[-]daily
Additionally produce or update an inverted index.
[-][re]index
Fully reindex, complete with an inverted index.
[-]stem[med]
Additionally index unsuffixed variants of terms.
[-]clean|[-]clear
Delete Indices contents and Increment files.
[-]scrap
Delete Postings directories.
[-]scrub
Delete Indices contents, Increment files, and Postings directories.
[-]scour
Delete Indices contents, Increment files, and Postings, Data, Archive, and Sentinel directories.
[-]erase
Delete Indices contents, Increment files, Postings, Data, Archive, and Sentinel directories, and Extras directory contents.
[-]zap
Delete entire archive.
Check whether the archive is complete and up to date; report what's wrong if it isn't.
Download needed data via FTP (default).
Download needed data via HTTPS.

ENVIRONMENT

Local archive directory to use; expected to hold an absolute path.
Directory to hold intermediate subtrees; expected to hold an absolute path. Defaults to the local archive directory when not set.

SEE ALSO

archive-nihocc(1), archive-nlmnlp(1), archive-nmcds(1), archive-pids(1), archive-pubmed(1), archive-taxonomy(1), download-pmc(1), pm-clean(1), pm-prepare(1), pm-setup(1), nquire(1), rchive(1), xfetch(1), xfilter(1), xinfo(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1). xtract(1).

2025-05-26 NCBI