run-ncbi-converter(1)

run-ncbi-converter1

Run a converter from ncbi's ftp site

Usage

run-ncbi-converter name arg []

Overview

run-ncbi-converter runs one of the tools from NCBI's FTP site ⟨ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/converters⟩ with specified arguments. It maintains a cache of downloaded tools in $NCBI_CONVERTER_DIR ($HOME/.cache/ncbi-converters by default).

Options

name

Converter to run.

arg

Argument to supply to it.

Releases

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

  1. 9–11
  2. 12–13

From ncbi-entrez-direct 24.0.20250523+dfsg-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.