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XINFO(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual XINFO(1)

NAME

xinfo - print aggregate information for a local NCBI Entrez Direct archive

SYNOPSIS

xfetch [-h[elp]|[--]help] [-db database] -count[squery|-fields|-terms field|-totals field

DESCRIPTION

xinfo prints to standard output aggregate information concerning a local NCBI Entrez Direct archive produced by archive-pubmed(1) or the like.

OPTIONS

Fetch from the specified database, pubmed by default for now. (Explicitly specifying a database will eventually become mandatory.)
Print terms and counts, merging wildcards.
Expand wildcards; print individual term counts.
List all field abbreviations.
List all known terms for the given field.
List all known terms for the given field along with the number of records in which each occurs.
Print a summary of options and some usage examples.

ENVIRONMENT

Local archive directory. Expected to hold an absolute path; mandatory when not supplying a path on the command line.

SEE ALSO

archive-nihocc(1), archive-nlmnlp(1), archive-nmcds(1), archive-pids(1), archive-pmc(1), archive-pubmed(1), archive-taxonomy(1), download-ncbi-data(1), download-pmc(1), download-pubmed(1), edict(1), efetch(1), filter-columns(1), pm-refresh(1), print-columns(1), rchive(1), xfetch(1), xfilter(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1), xtract(1).

2025-05-26 NCBI