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  1. Peter Cock @[email protected] ·

    Learnt a new trick with #NCBI #EntrezDirect tools:

    $ xtract -pattern ENTREZ_DIRECT -element Count < search.xml

    More elegant and readable than the grep I was using before.

    For context, sadly I still sometimes get "silent" failures where efetch returns partial data and a return code of 0 ("success"). It does grumble on stderr.

    Thus the need to compare the record count after efetch to the expected count from esearch.

    #ncbi #entrezdirect