econtact(1)

econtact1

Adjust contact information for an edirect pipeline (deprecated)

Usage

econtact (edirect -contact) [-help] [-email address] [-tool name]

Overview

Note: econtact will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. Instead, please set the EMAIL environment variable appropriately, or supply explicit -email settings to individual commands.

econtact adjusts the e-mail address and/or client name that subsequent edirect(1) pipeline stages will send to have someone to notify in case a runaway script causes problems with an NCBI Entrez server.

Options

-help

Print usage information.

-email address

Send the given e-mail address.

-tool name

Send the given client name.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 9–10
  2. 11

From ncbi-entrez-direct 14.6.20210224+dfsg-4+b1 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.