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

NAME

archive-taxonomy - maintain a local NCBI taxonomy archive

SYNOPSIS

archive-taxonomy [[-]daily|[-][re]index] [[-]clean|[-]clear|[-]scrub|[-]scour|[-]erase|[-]zap] [-info] [-ftp|-http[s]]

DESCRIPTION

archive-taxonomy prepares a directory to hold a local taxonomy 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

[-]daily
Additionally produce or update an inverted index.
[-][re]index
Fully reindex, complete with an inverted index.
[-]clean|[-]clear
Delete Indices contents and Increment files.
[-]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.
[-pathdir
Place the local archive in dir.
[-temp|-work[ing]] dir
Place intermediate subtrees in dir.

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-pmc(1), archive-pubmed(1), download-ncbi-data(1), nquire(1), pm-clean(1), pm-prepare(1), pm-setup(1), rchive(1), xfetch(1), xfilter(1), xinfo(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1). xtract(1).

2025-05-26 NCBI