edirect_installing

#There are staright-forward instructions for edirect installation
#edirect installation in ubuntu by my experience is the cleanest approach although you can try cygwin similarly
#the code below is from ncbi Entrez Programming Utilities Help
#copy and paste the code in terminal as and when required
  cd ~
  /bin/bash
  perl -MNet::FTP -e \
    '$ftp = new Net::FTP("ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", Passive => 1);
     $ftp->login; $ftp->binary;
     $ftp->get("/entrez/entrezdirect/edirect.tar.gz");'
  gunzip -c edirect.tar.gz | tar xf -
  rm edirect.tar.gz
  builtin exit
  export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/edirect >& /dev/null || setenv PATH "${PATH}:$HOME/edirect"
  ./edirect/setup.sh
  #after you run setup.sh which will take a while so grab a coffee and make sure you test the edirect is working 
  #pubmed search for hypertrichosis output will be tabular format
esearch -db pubmed -query "hypertrichosis"|efetch -format docsum|xtract -pattern DocumentSummary -element Id Title
#any perl missing modules will pop-up dont freak out