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

fetch-pmc - fetch records from a local NCBI PubMed Central archive by UID

fetch-pmc [-strict|-mixed] [[-path] dir]

fetch-pmc reads a list of record IDs from standard input and prints to standard output the corresponding portions of a local NCBI PubMed archive produced by archive-pmc(1), typically for further processing by xtract(1) or the like.

Run rchive(1) with -flag strict or -flag mixed, respectively.
[-path] dir
Use the local archive in dir.

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

archive-pmc(1), rchive(1), xtract(1).

2023-02-25 NCBI