Filter Record

filter-record

Quick Start

• Command: filter-record < records.txt > filtered.txt
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/filter-record
• Full reference: See references/help.md for detailed usage

When To Use This Tool

• Apply EDirect's built-in record-filtering step to a record-oriented text stream.
• Clean or narrow structured NCBI/Entrez records before a downstream transformation stage.
• Keep record filtering inside the transmute toolchain instead of building ad hoc shell parsing.

Common Patterns

# 1) Filter a saved record stream
filter-record < records.txt > filtered.txt

# 2) Filter an upstream EDirect stream before the next pipeline stage
some-upstream-command | filter-record | some-downstream-command

Recommended Workflow

1. Start from a representative upstream record stream.
2. Run filter-record in a pipe or with stdin redirection.
3. Inspect a small sample of the output before scaling up.
4. Continue into downstream EDirect steps once the retained record structure looks right.

Guardrails

• This wrapper is just transmute -txf, so transmute must be on PATH.
• --help and --version are not implemented here; both are reported as unrecognized arguments.
• Prefer stdin or pipes over undocumented positional-file behavior.
• The real filtering semantics live inside transmute, so validate behavior on a representative record stream before batching.