NAME

       epost - upload a batch of NCBI Entrez record identifiers

SYNOPSIS

       epost (edirect -post) [-help] [-db name] [-id ID(s)] [-format fmt] [-input filename]

DESCRIPTION

       epost  uploads  a  batch  of  record  identifiers  (textual accessions or numeric UIDs) to Entrez history
       servers for processing by other edirect commands.  By default, it reads these identifiers  from  standard
       input.

       It  has  two  implementations:  a  shell  implementation  on  top  of  nquire(1)  and  a traditional Perl
       implementation that amounts to running  edirect  -post,  enabled  by  setting  the  environment  variable
       USE_NEW_EDIRECT to a false value as described in the ENVIRONMENT section.

OPTIONS

       -help  Print usage information.

       -db name
              Indicate that the identifiers are from the specified database.

       -id ID(s)
              Specify identifiers directly.

       -format fmt
              uid or acc(ession).

       -input filename
              Read  from  filename  instead of standard input (which is then free to receive pipeline state from
              other edirect commands).

ENVIRONMENT

       USE_NEW_EDIRECT
              Whether to use the current shell implementation or revert to the historical  Perl  implementation.
              Canonical   true   values   are   1,  on  (case-insensitive),  true  (case-insensitive),  and  yes
              (case-insensitive);   canonical   false   values   are   0,    off    (case-insensitive),    false
              (case-insensitive), and no (case-insensitive).

SEE ALSO

       edirect(1), elink(1), nquire(1).

NCBI                                               2021-01-20                                           EPOST(1)